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[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:51 -0400, rumours say that Peter Hansen
<peter at engcorp.com> 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...