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Thread #168706   Message #4076085
Posted By: GUEST,The Man from UNCOOL
19-Oct-20 - 10:23 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: modern proverb
Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
I think the orgy one is Ogden Nash.
The "accomplish plenty" one (or a variant of it) is sometimes credited to Ronald Reagan [unlikely he coined it, but he displayed a block on his desk with it written on].
Winner of a BBC epithet competition some years ago [to my chagrin, I didn't log the name of the author]: "Casualties are the first truth of war."