[Dixielandjazz] P. T. Barnum
Max Hughes
maxuuu at connexus.net.au
Sat Jun 10 16:25:57 PDT 2006
Laurence Swain wrote:
>Tom Wiggins said:
>
> > You can please all of the people sometime but you have a hard time
> > pleasing all the people all the time. :))
>
>A more elegant turn of phrase is the one attributed to P. T. Barnum:
>
> "You can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the
> time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time."
>
>With which, Tom's version or the original, I wholeheartedly agree!
>
>Larry Swain
>
>
I think you can fool some of the people some of the time and those are
the ones you should concentrate on! ;-)
I'm Ba-ack!
Max Hughes,
Melbourne
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