Modern Proverb: If you are not at the table, you may be on the menu.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug.

JL

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:35 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Fred will set his own guidelines on that question, I imagine. Perhaps
> the AP has offered guidance.
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> If a quotation collector wished to include the saying in an annual
> list then he or she could construct a category such as "Most
> Interesting Revitalized Quotation(s)".
>
> Here is an example of a saying revitalized by Steve Jobs in 1993:
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn=E2=80=99t matter to me =E2=80=
> =A6 Going to
> bed at night saying we=E2=80=99ve done something wonderful=E2=80=A6
> that=E2=
> =80=99s what
> matters to me.
> [End excerpt]
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> I Don=E2=80=99t Want To Be the Richest Man in the Cemetery
> http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/18/richest-in-cemetery/
>
> Many words could be used to describe the category and the connotations
> would vary greatly: revitalized, plagiarized, resuscitated, lifted,
> recovered, etcetera.
>
> Garson
>
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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 10/11/2014 07:06 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> >>Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >> >"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably
> >> > on the menu." - -
> >> > Elizabeth Warren
> >>
> >>This interesting saying is listed in Charlie and Fred's Dictionary of
> >>Modern Proverbs with an initial citation in 1993. ...
> >
> > Even if it was coined in 1993, as long as Warren said it in 2014
> > isn't it eligible as a QOTY?
> >
> > Joel
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