Date:  Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:44:14 -0400
From:  Alan Baragona <baragonaa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VAX.VMI.EDU>
Subject: Re: dumb question, I'm really sorry

Duane Campbell wrote:
>
> Who said, "Less is more." My instinct says Menken, but van der Rohe is in
> the running.
>
> My MS Bookshelf doesn't have it, nor does my 1955 paper Bartlett's or the
> Bartleby Bartlett's online.
>
> Really sorry to clutter the list with this, but I am desperate.
>
> Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net
> http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/

Believe it or not, my hardback Bartlett's attributes it to Robert
Browning! "Andrea del Sarto," l. 78, with a cross reference to Hesiod:
"Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole"
("Works and Days" l. 40). FWIW, I always associated it with Van der
Rohe, not Mencken.

Alan B.