The best of both worlds

Posted by ESC August 20, 2002In reply to The best of both worlds posted by Martin on August 20, 2002

Can anybody tell where this phrase come from?
"the best of both worlds"
thans a lot!!!
martin

To start off this discussion...a related phrase:
BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS, THE - "The optimal condition, quite often as it is seen by an optimist like Dr. Pangloss in Voltaire's 'Candide' : "in this best of all possible worlds.all is for the best.' A bit of sport is had with the term in James Branch Cabell's 'The Silver Stallion' : 'The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true.'" The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).