Daniel Handler said, "He who hesitates is lost," according to Google.
Manse Everard thinks, "He who hesitates is bossed." (p. 59)
Other clever misquotes are:
"Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet";
"Glory to God in the High St.";
"Travel broadens the behind";
"Britannia waives the rules";
"Sold his birthright for a pot of message."
Marshall McLuhan said, "The medium is the message," then parodied his own aphorism with the title, The Medium Is The Massage. Someone I knew at school had a knack of insisting that he was right when he had just missed a point, e.g., he insisted that McLuhan had said, "The medium is the massage," not "The medium is the message."
Have I gone off the point here? One clever misquotation recalls others.
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Van Rijn was a specialist in them -- and I suspect usually deliberately, from his own p.o.v.
Trying again.
The example I thought of being how one SF writer, who did not like the book, called Heinlein's STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND with the disparaging parody STRANGER IN A STRANGE BED.
Ad astra! Sean
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