I stand corrected. Good sleuthing---thia is a great link to bookmark! Marge ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gawne" <gawne@cesmail.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:17 AM Subject: [BEARA] Inconsistent Hobgoblins (was More Sullivan and Murphy research) > Marge Sullivan <hjmcs@optonline.net> writes: > > (About the origin of the phrase, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of > small minds," which I had attributed to Oscar Wilde.) > >> Actually no: It was Walt Whitman. > > Inspired by Marge, I looked around the web. It seems the phrase > originated with Ralph Waldo Emerson, according to Bartleby's Directory > of Quotations. > > http://www.bartleby.com/100/420.47.html > > Apparently several other authors, Walt Whitman included, considered > the idea worthy enough to borrow. > > -- Bill > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message