Carelessly Quoting Computer/Electronic References

[George Swan <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

I'm sure glad you guys aren't as careless when you're giving answers to
Linux queries!!!!

Found in only one of over 20 reference books of quotations:

FROM: Cassell Companion to Quotations  compiled and edited by Nigel Rees,
!!!!!! copyright 1997  !!!!!  $35! You might as well get your tax dollars
worth.

p.174...  Quoting from the text
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Clemenceau, Georges French Prime Minister (1841-1929)
...
"If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no
heart--if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no
head."

[... the commentary is then given...]
The saying to this effect may derive from what Bennett A. Cerf attributed
to Clemenceau in *Try and Stop Me* (1944).  It is supposedly what
Clemenceau said when told his son had just joined the Communist party 'My
son is twenty-two years old.  If he had not become a Communist at
Twenty-two I would have disowned him.  If he is still a Communist at
thirty, I will do it then.'

Another suggested source is Dean Inge, the 'Gloomy Dean' of St Paul's (d.
1954).  And then there is the remark, attributed loosely to Benjamin
Disraeli, in Laurence J. Peter's *Quotations for Our Time* (1977): 'A man
who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a
Conservative at sixty has no head' (217:6).

*Pass the Port Again* (1980) has this version, ascribed to Maurice
Maeterlinck: 'If a man is not a Socialist at twenty he has no heart.  If he
is a Socialist at thirty, he has no brain.'  *The Oxford Book of Ages*
(1985) ascribes to Aristide Briand (1862-1932) the similar: 'The man who is
not a socialist at twenty has not heart, but if he is still a socialist at
forty he has no head.'

Putting it another way, Will Durant, the American, philosopher and
historian (1885-1982), said, 'There is nothing in Socialism that a little
age or a little money will not cure.'  The American poet, Robert Frost,
wrote in 'Precaution' (1936): 'I never dared be radical when young/For fear
it would make me conservative when old.'

Compare what Geroge Bernard Shaw said in a lecture at the Unviersity of
Hong Kong in February 1933: 'Steep yourself in revolutionary books.  Go up
to your neck in Communism, because if you are not a red revolutionist at
20, you will be at 50 a most impossible fossil.  If you are a red
revolutionist at 20, you have some chance of being up-to-date at 40.'
*********************** end quoted material from Cassell

And one for free that I came across before finding the above:
Definition of a reformer:
"A guy who rides through a sewer in a glass bottomed boat."
   ---James J. Walker

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