Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 28, 2016

Albert Einstein Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde and Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and Buddha all said that. At least the Internet says they did.

Well, yeah, somebody at some point made it up.

Made up or not, the rabbit still has to run.

If you’re chasing rabbits, don’t make the hare’s mistake. Take nothing for granted, and stick to the mission until it’s accomplished. Don’t let yourself be diverted.

In France we just say : One “Got it” is better than two “you’ll catch it”Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras.

We say “One bird in the hand is better than 2 in the bush”. I use that all the time. Young people just stare.

Yeah… be VERY careful of using quotations and their attributions found on the internet… or in those long lists in your e-mail, of things George Carlin or the Dalai Lama never really said.

Just because somebody pastes some words over a picture of Mark Twain, or Ghandi…. don’t believe that means he said them.

Quotations sites like BrainyQuote.com seem authoritative…. till you find the same words attributed to different people on different pages.

Never having heard the quotation referenced in the strip, I, too, did a quick search…and just from images offered with those words on them (suitable for framing, of course) I found that it’s an old Chinese/Russian/Native American/Rumanian proverb…Or a quotation attributed to Leonard Nimoy….or Taylor Swift??

Cabalonrye…In English-speaking countries we say “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

But neither means quite the same thing as chasing two and getting neither.

We’re all really more alike than we think.

In South America it’s about two guinea pigs. In China it’s about two pandas.

Suspicious or not, it is true.

My dog found that if he chased one rabbit, he wouldn’t catch it.

@pumaman. How can you not catch 2 pandas? They move pretty slow.

Another problem with many quotes is that their original meanings may have been lost by cultural change. E.g., how many of us go hunting small birds in bushes?.Or the one that puzzled me as a child: “Penny wise and pound foolish.” Living in the US, where “pounds” aren’t currency, I didn’t understand why money was being compared to weight.

There are also many sayings attributed to multiple people because multiple people said a variation of it and some how, the most popular variant gets attributed to the most popular famous people even if the original is from some minor author.

“the problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true” Abraham Lincoln

I once saw 2 bunnies together, and they weren’t running away from anything. Moving fast, yes, but not running. I’m told they’re like that.

If everyone says it is true it is true. Conform.

That why Taz only chase one rabbit.

A Busch in the hand is worth two in the bird……

Aren’t all sayings made up?

Wouldn’t “suspect” work better than “suspicious”? Is there an English teacher on board who could opine? Or a Big puma? Anyone?