About angelina salacinski Expertise I am always reading books and I have various books on quotations. I can answer most questions on quotations from books or other areas.
Experience i am always doing quizzes so i have a broad knowledge about most things,but i love browsing through my quotation books.
Expert: angelina salacinski Date: 3/5/2004 Subject: "Slow and Steady Wins The Race"
Question Hi--
This question is deceptive. It seems simple, but its answer has evaded all my attempts.
A friend asked the source of the quotation: "Slow and Steady Wins The Race". He, and I, assumed that it was from Aesop's "The Hare and The Tortoise".
But it doesn't seem to be (though no doubt people have used the phrase to describe the moral of "Hare...").
The only reference I have been able to find for the phrase is a 1762 poem by Robert Lloyd. Is this the earliest use?
Also: I seem to remember that "slow and steady..." was either the first, or more likely, the second line of a two-line piece (I think the other line had "pace" to rhyme with "race".)
Any idea what that other line is?
Many thanks for any help you can offer.
Steve
nighttrain@nyc.rr.com
Answer hi steve
according to the oxford dictionary of phrase,saying and quotation-which is my bible!-it does indeed come from aesops hare and tortoise and it make no reference to anything ealse i'm afraid. have looked for it elsewhere and no luck i'm afraid. hope this helps-angelina
