2007-03-19 05:59:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Here is a clue - It was before Palmer!
2007-03-19 07:38:54 · update #1
it was Robert the Bruce who was watching a spider spin a web.
2007-03-19 09:05:22 · answer #1 · answered by catfish 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED
WE ARE NOT fast learners. In fact, we don't learn at all. Not anything of substance, at least. All we learn is fear; and fear is overwhelmed by need; and need finds its ally in hope. We do not learn to stop trying. We fall down and some kind soul picks us up and dries away our tears and pats us and powders us and sends us on our way again. We put out timid feelers, ready instantly to retract at the slightest rebuff, but we keep on putting them out. A shy and hopeful smile greets every prospect, though if it is not returned, we may pretend that we were just smiling to ourselves. We are ashamed at our need and try to hide it, but everybody knows. They know because they are like us. Everybody's been there, or is there, or is going there soon. Everybody. In matters of the heart, there is no respect of persons.
May 10
'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again. - Thomas H. Palmer (1782 - 1861) Teacher's Manual (1840)
2007-03-19 13:16:19 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most proverbs are out there in the vernacular long before they are attributed to some particular writer.
The more interesting questions would be, who first said
If at first you don't fricasee, fry, fry a hen
OR
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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2007-03-19 15:02:46 · answer #3 · answered by RE 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Palmer - he wrote literary books.
Did you look at the link I sent? It has a detailed history of it. Mayrat or something did too, but the details are on this history.
2007-03-19 13:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by Jessie4reel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
“If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.”
“If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.”
“It seems like the agency has changed its motto to: If at first you don't succeed ... lower the standard.”
“If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions.”
“If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.”
2007-03-19 13:25:57 · answer #5 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My best friend when I was 7, I first heard that from her :p
2007-03-19 13:07:45 · answer #6 · answered by gameplan_xtreme 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think it was thomas edison but i'm not sure
2007-03-19 13:21:49 · answer #7 · answered by diva_rimi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋