[lit-ideas] Sleeping under bridges
- From: "Kahn, Rupert" <R.D.Kahn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:00:35 +0100
The version I've heard is from Anatole France:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor
to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
but Wikiquote has a slight variation as well:
"How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and
poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under
bridges, and stealing bread!
Le Lys Rouge (The Red Lily), ch. 7 (1894)"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France
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[mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Geary
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hamas and Israel's "Right to Exist"
Stan: [addressed to Omar]
> I like your apparent "even-handedness" in saying this. Reminds me of
the
> old saying: "Neither rich nor poor are prohibited from sleeping under
a
> bridge on rainy nights."
I've never heard that. I will keep it close at hand. Thanks.
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