Who originally wrote.....

[joe-90]

.... "The more things change, the more they stay the same", and in the context of what was it written? Any ideas?

 

[tim west]

By a very confused individual?

 

[solo]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/8/messages/679.html



Might be of some use.

 

[JohnD]

definitely French

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose"

Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (in Les Guêpes, January 1849).

see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Karr

 

[noseall]

who said and in what film, "the middle word in life is if".

 

[joe-90]

Thanks for that folks. Can't understand why I couldn't find it.

 

[megawatt]

And his relatives are now living in Milton Keynes ... Damn immigrants ...

Over to Joe

 

[megawatt]

Run a local plumbing business I hear

 

[Zampa]

No..its from a song..

 

[tim west]

A toast to where we girls was born

South Carolina

Mississippi

Louisiana

 

[securespark]

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/c..._25259/put_your_records_on_lyrics_276881.html

 

[Zampa]

Told ya..

 

[Zampa]

.... "The more things change, the more they stay the same", and in the context of what was it written? Any ideas?

Hitler?

 

[tim west]

That'll be Ronald Hitler of Stanhurch Gardens, Great Wormsley,Banford, Staffs.

 

[Zampa]

That'll be Ronald Hitler of Stanhurch Gardens, Great Wormsley,Banford, Staffs.

The very same