Shame On You Quotes

• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspirational, Relationship, Simple

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• Shame on you for staying the same.

  Jhene Aiko

  Shame, Staying

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

  Robert Redford

  Balance, Tools, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you still have to ask, shame on you

  Louis Armstrong

  Shame, Stills, Asks

  When asked what jazz is, in Max Jones et al. 'Salute to Satchmo' (1970) p. 25 (sometimes quoted as 'Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know').

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• You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

  Rumi

  Thinking, Air, Forever

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• Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles' job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles - to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Jobs

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.91, Thomas Nelson

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• If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Lessons, Fool, Shame

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• Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.

  William T. Vollmann

  Girl, Mother, Self

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• If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.

  Leigh Anne Tuohy

  Circles, Looks, Shame

  Source: www.today.com

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• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  Chuck Norris

  Together Again, America, Fool Me Once

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• We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

  Tucker Carlson

  Moral High Ground, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

  Linda Wisdom

  Fool, Witch, Shame

  Linda Wisdom (2009). “Wicked By Any Other Name”, p.357, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you....you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.

  Don Farrell

  Competition, Shame, Stealing

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• How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children, your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Dream, Fashion

  @eltonjohn, www.instagram.com. March 15, 2015.

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• Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

  John Zakour

  Fool Me Once, Mentor, Whiskey

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• We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

  Michael Moore

  War, Men, Orange

  Speech at the 75th Annual Academy Awards as the Winner in the Best Documentary Feature category, www.imdb.com. March 23, 2003.

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• We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies' And we're going to say, Shame on you. Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Children, Lying, Mean

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that everyone was as perverted as he was, so I didn't miss a beat. "We prefer blender beaters for our kitchen utensil kink," I said with a straight face. Bones hid his smile behind his hand, but Ian looked intrigued. "I haven't tried that ... oh, you're lying, aren't you?" "Ya think?" I asked with a snort. Ian gave a sigh of exaggerated patience and glanced at Bones. "Being related to her through you is a real trial.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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