Less is More....I don't think so

Who wrote "less is more"? 

Ah, yes it was Robert Browning in 1855, but he was not the first to write it. 

In Men and Women he wrote "... Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged."

Less is not more...more is more and here is the proof.
Thanksgiving Dinner.

Many times this statement of less is more is misattributed to Buckminster Fuller the minimalist but the little bit of research I did on it says that the statement was actually first used in  1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland when he said  "And Less is often more, as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Prince teaches us."

Neither of these esteemed gentlemen  have ever feasted on a meal like the one I enjoyed today because there is evidence that no matter what they say. Less is less and more is more. The minimalist theory seems sound until it is tested by the ant and the grasshopper.  The grasshopper played all summer and in his case less was not more when it came to the stored grain and seed that was missing from his warehouse when winter came.  The ant however, stored seeds and grain until his warehouse buldged with food for the long hard winter. The ant thought more is more when it comes to food and his survival was proof of that. 

"More is more".  Happy Thanksgiving.


You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.  ~William Blake, 

Until next time...John