
“He is as mad as a March hare.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He is as mad as a March hare.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
Replication Against Certain Young Scholars (date unknown, but certainly after 1523, generally considered to be among Skelton's final works), a criticism of heretical thought among the young men then attending universities, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Hare Krishna, Peace and Love”
“To hold with the hare and run with the hound.”
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)
Sometimes attributed to Glasse, but in fact the phrase appears nowhere in her Art of Cookery. The closest is under roast hare (page 6), "Take your hare when it be cas'd", simply meaning take a skinned hare. (Reference: Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia's Culinary History, Colin Bannerman (and others), published by the National Library of Australia, 1998, ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 2.)
Misattributed
“5188. To hold with the Hare, and run with the Hounds.”
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.
“If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.”
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)