Patience is a Virtue
I believe someone once said "revenge is a plate best eaten cold."
Well, I have bidden my time. In fact, I didn't think I'd get this chance.
But it has come. She has forgotten what she said.
*evil grin* heheheheh.....
For those of you who have been around my blog for a while remember my encounter with a tarantula in my bathroom.
Yes, a tarantula. In the bathroom. You can check my entry from 9 June 2004 for the full story.
And make sure to read the comment from my sister teasing me for freaking out over a tarantula.
Only, see, she has apparently found a few cockroaches in HER house and now that is a big deal.
Well, darlin', it seems what goes around comes around.
Happy killing!
p.s. if you don't know me as well as my sister does, I love her immensely and am fully aware that having cockroaches in your house is a major bummer.
Comments
I haven't forgotten, and I stand by it.
Posted by: Rae | June 3, 2005 07:17 AM
Mara, patience is a virtue, but, here, it's a battle tactic. You girls (I thought briefly of calling you ladies) are so silly.
Posted by: Kristen | June 3, 2005 07:48 AM
Nice to see you around, Kristen!
Hopefully we'll get that blog up and running for you soon!
Posted by: Mara | June 3, 2005 09:27 AM
I got to thinking about the quote and couldn't decide which was correct, served or eaten, so I went to trusty Google. This is what I found, which just left me more confused.
Re: Revenge is a dish best served cold
Posted by Markitos on July 31, 2001
In Reply to: Revenge is a dish best served cold posted by katherine selby on July 30, 2001
: Who said/wrote this originally?
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos (1741-1803). He originally said it in French in his 1782 book Les Liasons Dangereuses: "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid,"
Although this site refers to the quote as 'served cold', doesn't this translate to 'eat cold'? And I am not so sure that the eating refers to the recipient of the revenge, but that the preparer (and eater -- one and the same. Think about who is savoring the taste of the revenge) had to wait and it was not done in the heat of passion.
Posted by: ma | June 3, 2005 09:29 PM
Mara I think you'd better have another look at the "Patience" virtues card, cause I have the feeling this particular take on it might not be what was intended. :)
Posted by: sashwee | June 4, 2005 04:35 PM
You know, Mara, the tarantula post was a much better read on the other side of the world. Currently, thanks to mefloquine and the congregations of spiders which I've already destroyed in the bathroom, it's a large source of alarm. : \
Posted by: Kristen | June 4, 2005 04:47 PM