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Definition of Tried
tried

imp. & p. p. of Try.

Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.

of Try

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Tried Quotations

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin

Tried Translations

tried in German is erprobt
tried in Latin is exertus


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