[Ads-l] old, not bold

[George Thompson]

 I've also seen this applied to race-car drivers.

GAT

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:32 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> According to the current film _A Private War_, “There are old journalists,
> and there are bold journalists, but there are no old, bold journalists.”
>
> 1943 Kendall Banning _Our Army Today_ (N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls) 152: "There
> are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold
> pilots."
>
> 1955 Charles W. Shilling _The Human Machine_ (Annapolis: Naval Institute
> Press) 249: Pilots have an expression: "There are old pilots, and there are
> bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots."
>
> 1959 _FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin_ (March) 10: Keep this thought in mind:
> "There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old,
> bold pilots."
>
> 1992 Susan Metzler & Van Metzler _Texas Mushrooms_ (Austin: U. of Texas
> Press) 37:  A common quote heard in mycological circles is, "There are old
> mycophagists and there are bold mycophagists, but there are no old, bold
> mycophagists."
>
> 2015 Chase Cole  _The Remorseful Robber_   (Google Books):  There's an old
> saying among thieves: “There's old thieves and bold thieves, but there are
> no old, bold thieves.”
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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