One man's meate is another man's poyson 1618

[James Smith]

Sorry that I can't recall the story, put the punch
line is "One man's Meade is another man's Persian."
Sound familiar to any of you?




--- Rachel Shuttlesworth <rshuttle at BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote:
> After seeing this line in a story linked to from
> Google's News page,
> "You know the saying: "One man's terrorist is
> another man's freedom
> fighter."
> (http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=1817), I
> decided to
> look at the phrase, "one man's <blank> is another
> man's <blank>. The
> citations I found are below. The first in EEBO and
> the second through
> ProQuest Historical Newspapers. I have not yet found
> when other items
> besides meat and poison showed up but am still
> looking.
> Rachel
>
>
>  From The colde spring of Kinghorne Craig his
> admirable and new tryed
> properties, so far foorth as yet are found by
> experience. Written by
> Patrik Anderson D. of Physick.   1618
>
> ...yea & to some also, one man's meate is another
> man's...
> ...also, one man's meate is another man's poyson, a
> proverb co~moun...
>
>
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:15695:14
>
>
>
>
>  From New York Daily Times, Jan. 26 1853, p.4
>
> Loss and Gain.--There is an old proverb which says:
> "What is one man's
> meat is another man's poison." This old, musty, but
> true proverb, for
> the last two days, has been entirely reversed at
> Columbian Hall, No. 281
> Grand-st.as thousands of ladies can testify. What
> was one man's loss was
> another, yes, a thousand ladies' gain.
>
>
>
>
> --
> ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
>
> Dr. Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
> CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow
> University of Alabama Libraries
> Box 870266, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0266
> Office: 205.348.4655/ Fax:205.348.8833
> rachel.e.shuttlesworth at ua.edu
>

James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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