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

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:21 PM -0700 5/20/05, James Smith wrote:
>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?
>

Well, I'm glad I waited before posting the virtually identical
message.  It's a mot, all right, but I don't remember whose--has at
least the apocryphal flavor of the Algonquin Round Table.  Let's see
what google has...

L

>
>--- 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
>>
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