Words Worth Noting - November 26, 2024

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

This line has been widely attributed in various forms (including being emailed to me as from John Wayne as “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”) However the Quote Investigator says, credibly (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/16/hard-life/) that it originated with a character named Jackie Brown who gets guns for fellow criminals in the 1971 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins.