Edward Smith probably said the same thing after he scraped his boat on a chunk of floating sea ice,Benjamin Briggs the Mary Celestes captain probably thought about hindsight in the moments prior to dissapearing from the face of the earth alongside his crew and wife,amazing how its normally old sea-dogs and nautical captains who use cliches which are painfully obvious even to those of us with less seafaring experience
I heard the expression used again recently,where and when was it AH!Yeah,thats right,it was 2am this morning in deepest,darkest Hampshire as half-way across a lake,under the fu