On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:51 -0400, rumours say that Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>Peter Hansen wrote: >> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:24:36 +0300, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou: >>>> I don't know any related myth of anglo-saxon origin to quote. >>> The most commonly known phrasing would likely be "God only helps >>> those who help themselves". >> Google suggests that removing the word "only" produces a >> phrase many times more commonly known... >And very interesting reading (to spawn another diversion >typical to c.l.p), such as the third link in Google >titled "Vessel of Honour: ..." (content available only >via the "Cached" link), which points out that this >biblical-sounding phrase was never in the bible, >but actually comes *from Greek mythology*, and specifically >(it claims) from the same story as Christos has >quoted, except that the "god" in question was Hercules >and other details differ somewhat... It seems that I mixed two myths (I should pay more attention probably to mythology lessons at primary school :). The fable with Hercules is the correct one, as far as a cart and mud is concerned. The one about Athena and arm-motion, is that Aesop's fable: http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/480.htm Now there's another phrase, "the smart bird gets caught by the beak", and I don't know if I'm a smart bird, but my nose is big... -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
