[LMB] Aral's size vs. presence

[Mark Mandel]

Not to quibble (he said, fingers crossed behind his back), but shouldn't
that be "It's not the size of the dog *in the fight*, it's the size of the
fight in the dog"? ... Oh, and it seems to have been first said by Mark
Twain, though I sure wouldn't be surprised at Truman using it.

Mark A. Mandel
aka Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological
Busybody

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Stewart Dean <sdean7855 at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> I go back to Harry Truman's line:  It's not the size of the dog, it's
> the size of the fight in the dog.
>
> OTOH, it's always been my luck (thank you God) and my intent to be
> somewhere else when things get nasty.  It's a rare fight that's worth
> the damage and collateral effects.  Just as Cordelia speaks of how
> creating a life has echoes throughout time, so does a fight.
> I dread the possibility of another Depression or the end of cheap,
> commonly available energy: people get ugly and stupid when they are
> desperate.
>
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