If you can’t say anything nice….

I remember an easter present from my mother.  I would have sworn it was Peter Cottontail, and the character said:

 

If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

Now how profound is that?  Dale Carnegie would be proud.

So I’m trying to remember if around 1978 there was a Peter Cottontail record, or if I got a thumper record.

Apparently this quote is most attributed to Thumper, from Bambi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034492/quotes .

Now I do remember Mr. Cottontail as so:

Now Thumper is much different, as follows:

 

 

 

That’s my recollection of saying nice things.  Thumper and/or Peter Cottontail.  I wonder how Dale Carnegie thought about this.