Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 28, 2016
September 27, 2016
September 29, 2016
Transcript:
Girl: There's a line that if you chase two rabbits you won't catch either one. I've read that it's a native american saying, a south american saying, and a chinese proverb. Which makes me suspicious it's made up. Frazz: Makes me suspicious it's universal.
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.