On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Grover Cleveland once said, "A man is known by the company he keeps, >> and also by the company from which he is kept out." >> <snip> >> >> And Groucho Marx once said, "I refuse to join any club that would have >> me as a member." >> >> I'm not sure, but I think there's a connection between these two >> quotes. >> > > He was such a laugh! I can't help but chuckle at this one every time I hear > it: > > "In the year 1842-43, as editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, I first found > myself in the embarrassing position of having to discuss what is known as > material interests. ... the debates on free trade and protective tariffs > caused me in the first instance to turn my attention to economic questions. > ... When the publishers of the Rheinische Zeitung conceived the illusion > that by a more compliant policy on the part of the paper it might be > possible to secure the abrogation of the death sentence passed upon it, I > eagerly grasped the opportunity to withdraw from the public stage to my > study."
Indeed! That was from A Day at the Races, right? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
