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Late 19th century legislator to and about another: "With a few more brains you could be a halfwit." "He never opens his mouth without subtracting from the sum
by billswift 16y ago
Late 19th century legislator to and about another:
"With a few more brains you could be a halfwit."
"He never opens his mouth without subtracting from the sum of human intelligence."
I wrote them down a couple of years ago, but forgot to note the source.
- balding_n_tired 16y agoThe second at least I have seen attributed to Thomas Reed, Speaker of the House in the late 1890s.