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If red hair was disliked, yellow hair was held in aversion. He on whom nature had bestowed hair of that colour was regarded as ill favoured and almost deformed.

FORTUNE AND LUCK IN PROVERBS.

See Superstition in Proverbs

WITHOUT SUPERSTITION

A bold man has luck in his train.

(Danish).

"Good courage breaks ill luck." (English).
"Fortune favours the brave." (Latin, Spanish,
English). "To the bold man fortune gives her
hand."
(English, Spanish, German, Portuguese,
French). "Cowards have no luck." (German).
"Fortune helps the daring but repulses the timid."
"Fortune smiles upon the brave and frowns upon
the coward.' (Latin). "Fortune is not far
from the brave man's head." (Turkish).

The Germans say: "Fortune helps the bold, but
not always."

A stout man crushes ill luck. (Spanish).

Everyone is the author of his own good fortune. (French).

Everyone is the maker of his own fate.

(English).

"Everyone is the maker of his own fortune'; and an uneasy, necessitous, busy man seems to me more miserable than he that is simply poor."— Michael de Montaigne.

Every wind is against a leaky ship. (Danish).

Fortune comes to her who seeks her. (Italian).

“Luck comes to those that look after it.” (Spanish).

Fortune does not stand waiting at anyone's door. (Dutch).

Fortune helps them that help themselves. (English).

Fortune is the companion of virtue.

(Latin).

Some men are so sure that they are the creatures of luck that the combined force of religion, philosophy, education, and experience is unable to change their opinion. "It never occurs to fools," said Goethe, "that merit and good fortune are closely united."

The word "Luck" is said to be derived from an old Anglo-Saxon verb meaning "to catch" and therefore signifies something caught. Such a derivation seems reasonable in view of the fact that prosperity and adversity are thought by many to be dependent on fleeting opportunities that must be seized in passing; whereas they are the result of an overshadowing providence and the working out of fixed laws.

Good fortune ever fights on the side of prudence. (Greek).

Good luck comes by cuffing.

(English).

"Good luck comes by elbowing." (Spanish).

Industry is the mother of good fortune. (Spanish).

"The goddess of fortune dwells in the feet of the industrious; the goddess of misfortune dwells in the feet of the sluggard." (Tamil).

Luck follows the hopeful, ill luck the fearful. (German).

Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within. (Danish).

Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap. (Danish).

Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune. (Scotch).

The devil's children have the devil's luck. (English).

There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so. (German).

WITH SUPERSTITION

A drop of fortune is worth a cask of wisdom. (Latin). "A handful of luck is better than a sackful of wisdom." "Half an ounce of luck is better than a pound of sense." (German). "A grain of good luck is better than an ass-load of skill." (Persian). "An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom." (English). "Who has luck needs no understanding.' (German).

Adversity makes a man, luck makes monsters. (French). "Tribulation brings understanding." (Latin). Wind in the face makes a man wise." (French). Adversity makes a man wise, not rich."

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"Wis

dom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it." (English). "Misfortune is a good teacher." (German).

A good bone never falls to a good dog. (French).

"The worst pig gets the best acorn." (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese). "The worst pig often gets the best pear. (English). "The worst service,

the better luck." (Dutch).

"Other rules may vary, but this is the only one you will find without exception—that, in this world, the salary or reward is always in the inverse ratio of the duties performed."-Sydney Smith.

A jackal gives luck to those he meets, but let him beware of a dog. (Hindustani).

To meet a jackal is regarded by the people as an omen of good luck.

A lucky man needs little counsel. (Scotch, English). Sometimes the proverb is rendered, “Lucky men need no counsel."

A man does not seek his luck, his luck seeks its man. (Turkish).

A meeting in the sunlight is lucky and a burying in the rain. (Irish).

An unlucky fish tak's bad bait. (Scotch).

An unlucky man's cart is eithly coup'd. (Scotch).
Coup'd-overturned.

"An unhappy man's cart is eith to tumble."
(Scotch).

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Bad luck often brings good luck. (German).

"Give a man but luck and he'll run through all the dangerous difficulties, both of sea and land, with success, and seldom or never fail of being happy, even beyond his own hopes. 'Tis wonderful how some persons thrive an-end in the world, and seem to prosper upon their very losses."-Oswald Dykes.

Better be the lucky man than the lucky man's son. (Scotch).

"Better be lucky born than a rich man's son." (English).

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Used in referring to one who was thought to be lucky.

By land or water the wind is ever in my face. (English).

By the cat's good luck the string is broken. (Hindustani).

It is lucky for the cat when the string breaks by which food is hung to the rafters.

This proverb is applied to people who are favored by circumstances over which they have no control, and are thus enabled to secure benefits that they have not earned and positions beyond their ability to fill.

Dirt bodes luck. (Scotch).

The cleanly are comfortable, the dirty are lucky.

Even the street dog has his lucky days. (Japanese).

Fair eyes, unlucky hands. (Modern Greek).

This saying is applied to people who prefer "genteel poverty" to thrift and comfort.

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