Glad you like it. It certainly seems extremely appropriate when there is an obesity epidemic, and the most watched TV programmes are things like "Dancing with the stars" and "Celebrity Big Brother".
Mind you if Wikipedia is right, "bread and circuses" was originated by the Romans - Juvenal to be exact. … Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: *bread and circuses*[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses#cite_note-6> [...] *iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, /* *panem et circenses*. [...] (Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses Unless you meant "plus ca change" - but I think you'll find that there is an expression in most languages along the lines of "the more things change, the more they stay the same" - see for example http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plus_%C3%A7a_change,_plus_c%27est_la_m%C3%AAme_chose I imagine people were saying this when they invented a new way of chipping flints. On 13 December 2014 at 11:04, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote: > This paraphrasis of the famous quote from Santayana is the best quote that > I have read in years: > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
