Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
970
AUTHOR:
Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902)
QUOTATION:
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
ATTRIBUTION:
Representative THOMAS B. REED, referring to two of his colleagues in the House of Representatives.—Samuel W. McCall, The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed, chapter 21, p. 248 (1914).
