Molly Ivins quotes

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michael Israel wrote:

> The text of Richards' speech to the 1988 Convention does not
> seem to include the line, at least not as reproduced here:
>
> http://gos.sbc.edu/r/richards.html
>
> But it does have the equally memorable line:
>
> "Poor George! He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot
> in his mouth."

The overpoweringly well-researched Yale Book of Quotations has the
following:

[Of Newbold Morris:]  Born with a silver foot in his mouth.
        Paul Crowell, Quoted in N.Y. Times, 27 Mar. 1964.  This phrase was
later associated with Texas governor Ann Richards, who described George H.
W. Bush similarly.

Fred Shapiro


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