Keep your friends close and your enemies closer....

Kind of hard in this day and age when many friends are half way around the world. c.i.

Letty- I always thought that the quotation was from some Mafia Don!

heh..heh. True C.I. but you're the jet setter and the island hopper. Hop on over to Florida and we'll do lunch.

Oh, my Gawd. Sorry Phoenix.

Ahem. C.I. The pleasure of your company is requested for bologna sandwiches on Thursday next At the Ron Jon Surf Shop in Daytona Beach.
Please present your invitation at the door and
BYOB. Bring an enemy, if you like

Letty<

I love bologna sandwiches

From what I can gather, the quote was originally from Sun Tsu's "The Art of War", but has been quoted in many places, including Godfather II!

http://www.somedistantgalaxy.com/heroes/godfathers.htm

Phoenix, Funny, Ricky Roswell doesn't look EYEtalian Hmmmm. Look at that last name. The truth is out there, so keep watching the skies
After all, we are descended from and are clones of H.G. Welles.


WilliamHenry, Friend or foe, come on down with paws paws in a paper poke

Letty, I'll be at the Miami airport on May 17. Meet me there, and I'll treat YOU to lunch, or dinner, or breakfast! I'm not sure what time I'll be landing. c.i.

Roswell said the words but he didn't originate the quote.

From an article on the web:

"Rick Roswell, a graduate student and education major, feels that Duke should speak on campus.

"By not letting a bozo like David Duke speak, you're rolling over to his viewpoint. You want to know what they're up to," Roswell said. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.""

This was in response to a planned speech David Duke was scheduled to give on Calif. State Univ - Northridge in the Fall of 1996.

The quote had previously been uttered by "Michael Corleone" in "The Godfather II" (which is were people get the mafia connection..) ("My father taught me many things here - he taught me in this room. He taught me - keep your friends close but your enemies closer.") but it's been around at least 100 years and I can't find an actual attribution other than "anonymous". There are even a few suggestions that it originated with Marc Anthoney..

C.I. Miami, huh. Hey, since you are from California, how about Hollywood, Florida? :wink:

Phoenix, actually I attributed that quote to Mr. Roswell, because I knew that the Queen of search and destroy would come up with the right stuff.
The Art of War--oh, my. I think I'd rather sit and look at Mona Lisa.

Goodnight, neat people.
from somewhere on this planet

Letty, The sad part is that Mona Lisa now sits behind glass...... ugh! c.i.

Hey,fishin. That's exactly what I found, but I was entirely too lazy last night (whenever) to run the gamut of research. Actually, I thought that the quote may have come from The Prince by Machievelli. Whoever said it, I have thought about it quite a bit, lately.

C.I.