“Rome wasn’t built in a day. But I wasn’t on that particuar job.”
– Brian Clough, the late English club football manager who did not suffer from the national trait of false modesty.
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Nice quote; still, Clough was only involved in football, which when all is said and done, is an irrelevance.
I prefer an ’80s vintage spoof, “Rome wasn’t built in a day; it would have been, but we had to wait for the undercoat to dry”.
I’m waiting for someone contemporary, to be able to make a worthy quote in a relevant field…
I’m obscurely reminded of a sign at Anderson Air Force Base, on Guam, during the Vietnam war: “To err is human, to forgive divine. However, neither of these is Eighth Air Force policy.”
Whenever my lovely niece says something self-appreciative about her own loveliness, my very Englishy Anglophile brother harumphs something about false modesty.
I taught her to respond, “No, I just have a grip on reality and good self esteem.”
LOL
Kentuckyliz-
Maybe you could get her to respond with, “Thou shall not bear false testimony.”
In a similar vein, my favourite Clough-ism:
“I wouldn’t say I was the best in the business, but I was in the top one.”