Sweet and Sour Grapes

I AM reminded of the drunk who, when he had been thrown down the stairs of a club for the third time, gathered himself up, and said, 'I am on to those people. They don't want me in there.' " --William Jennings Bryan, after losing his third try for the presidency.

"I certainly did my damnedest to remove the Administration from power, but the majority of the people wished otherwise."--Wendell Willkie, 1940.

"I felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh." Adlai Stevenson, after losing to Ike in 1952.

"You can't beat a billion dollars."--Hubert Humphrey, explaining his loss to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 West Virginia primary.

"You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."--Richard Nixon, after losing to Pat Brown in 1962.

"A tie is like kissing your sister."--University of Washington Football Coach Jim Owens.

"Winning is not the most important thing about football

--it's the only thing."--Vince Lombardi, ex-Green Bay Packers coach.

"There's nothing wrong with being the sixth best in the world."--Harvard Rowing Coach Harry Parker consoling his crew after it finished last at the Olympics.

"If you don't think it twists my insides to see what has happened to General Dynamics, you are very wrong. You must know what this kind of defeat does to a man who has been successful."--Frank Pace, who presided over General Dynamics' disaster years.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas commemorating his father.

"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."--Napoleon after Waterloo.

"Ah, Rouen, I have great fear that you are going to suffer by my death! Jesus, Jesus!"--Joan of Arc.

"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"--Socrates' last words.

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