A story I liked..
Diogenes
was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato
said, "My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to kings, you
wouldn't have to wash vegetables."
"And," replied Diogenes, "If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn't have to pay court to kings."
..courtesy of Edward Hugh's blog, check him out on Facebook if you want to keep up with the Euro saga (or better still, don't :-( ).