You can lead a horticulture…

FAMOUS DOROTHY PARKER QUOTE: “You can lead a horse to water But you can’t make him drink. You can lead a horticulture But you can’t make her think”        Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)        American writer and critic        At a gathering of the Algonquin Round Table wits        Quoted in You Might as Well Live (1970)

LEATHERNECK COUNTERQUOTE: “They say ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.’ In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.”        Marine drill instructor Sgt. Fred Larson        Maxim (c. 1965) quoted on the Leatherneck website

LAUREL COUNTERQUOTE: “You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.”        Stan Laurel (1890-1965)         British comic actor        In the Laurel and Hardy film Brats (1930)

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