“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
“2782. If you run after two Hares, you will catch neither.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog, and Poor Richard's Almanack ( 1737) : He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one and lets t'other go.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.
