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Re: guile-vm-0.0


sen_ml@eccosys.com writes:

> From: Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>
> 
> > Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Speak softly and carry a two-sided brain, or something like that... ;-)
> > 
> > Is it a proverb?  What does it mean?
> 
> it could be said to be a take-off on:
> 
>   "walk softly, but carry a big stick"
> 
> or some such ;-)  presumably, "be very careful when you do x".

I was thinking of "speak softly and carry a two-handed sword" but I
don't really know to what context this belongs.  That is, "Be
powerful, but not aggressive."

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