[HN Gopher] Bruegel the Elder's "Big Fish Eat Little Fish" (1556) ___________________________________________________________________ Bruegel the Elder's "Big Fish Eat Little Fish" (1556) Author : drdee Score : 40 points Date : 2022-03-08 18:03 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (publicdomainreview.org) (TXT) w3m dump (publicdomainreview.org) | Tagbert wrote: | "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And | little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the | great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; | While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so | on." | | -Augustus De Morgan | throwyawayyyy wrote: | The Vermin only teaze and pinch / Their Foes superior by an | Inch. / So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea / Hath smaller Fleas | that on him prey, / And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, / | And so proceed ad infinitum: / Thus ev'ry Poet, in his Kind / | Is bit by him that comes behind | | - Jonathan Swift :) | SentientOctopus wrote: | "It is the way of the world, Baldrick. The abused always kick | downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat, the cat pounces | on the mouse, and finally, the mouse --bites you on the | behind." | | "And what do I do?" | | "Nothing. You are last in God's great chain. Unless there's an | earwig around here you'd like to victimize." | | - Sir Edmund Blackadder | hprotagonist wrote: | " Adam | | Had'em" | | -- Lines On the Antiquity of Microbes | sertsa wrote: | Might be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on | me! | hirundo wrote: | > "Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet" (A serpent, unless | it devours a serpent, will not become a dragon) | | And dragons do not become less hungry. This is a fair summary of | current world events. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-10 23:01 UTC)