Soon, it might change to: "A miss is as good as a metre." D. -----Original Message----- From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 5, 2002 18:59 Subject: [USMA:19274] RE: Gram of action
>2002-04-05 > >I know of at least one proverb that has changed over time. A miss is as >good as a mile was originally a miss is as good as an ell. But, when the >ell fell into disuse, the unit was changed to mile. > > >John > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, 2002-04-05 15:36 >Subject: [USMA:19264] RE: Gram of action > > >> I've never heard that attributed to Friedrich Engels. >> >> The very old English proverb is "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound >of >> cure." >> >> Possibly Engels was paraphrasing that. >> >> John Wesley (the founder of Methodism) certainly paraphrased it, with "An >> ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge." (Or, possibly, the proverb >was >> a paraphrasing of what Wesley said.) >> >> In any case, I wouldn't change a word of it. It's a proverb, for goodness >> sake, not a measurement standard. >> >> This is, by the way, something we've dealt with before, in this list. We >> don't advance the cause of metrication by trying to metricate traditional >> proverbs, sayings, metaphors, and other figures of speech. They are what >> they are and they reflect the time in which they acquired their proverb >> status. >> >> Bill Potts, CMS >> Roseville, CA >> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of M R >> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:45 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:19261] Gram of action >> >> >> I read a proverb >> "An ounce of action is better than ton of theory" >> by Frederich Engels. >> >> During life of Frederich Engels, I think Germany >> should have used either grams or their traditional >> units and he should have used such unit. >> >> Some 1 should have made it an ounce. >> So we will say >> "A gram of action is better than ton of theory". >> That way, it will be easier to visualise & compare >> between 1 gram & 1 million grams. >> >> Madan >> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax >> http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >> >> >
