"Brent Eades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 28 Aug 98, Eric Poole wrote:
>
> > Does anyone remember who first said "In the land of the blind, the
> > one-eyed man is king"?
>
> Nope... don't remember because I never knew, though of course I've
> heard this quote and variations on it many times.
>
> SO... I turned to the Web for what turned out to be some intensive but
> ultimately fruitless digging. But first I checked my own reference books,
> which confirmed that it isn't Biblical, nor Shakespearean, nor locatable in
> Bartlett's... away I went.
It's an old saying in Dutch as well. Which means it probably isn't
an original English quote. You're saying it's not biblical, in which
case I would bet on Latin. One of the classics, though I wouldn't know
which.
:*CU#
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