A Diller, A Dollar (1955) (continued)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:38 AM -0600 3/24/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>Variants from a misspent youth:
>
>>  If at first you don't succeed, slide for second.
>
>If at first you don't succeed, suck suck suck til you do succeed.

I recall "If at first you don't succeed, quit."

>
>>  You can lead a horse to water,
>>  But you cannot make him drink.
>>  You can send a fool to college,
>>  But you cannot make him think.
>
>You can lead a horticulture [whore to culture]
>but you can't make her think.

attributed, correctly or not, to Dorothy Parker (as an ad lib
contribution to a "use this word in a sentence" parlor game, one
likes to think around the Algonquin round table).

L