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Mon 26 Jul, 2004 11:44 am
I am writing an article on Superstitions/Fear. My last couple of articles have been on entirely different subjects but I've introduced them with a two line quote from Burns.
I know this is a lot to ask, but can you think of a couple of relatively well known lines (not necessarily Burns) which are related to superstition or the fear that if we say something aloud, it will happen.
Thanks for trying.
"From your mouth to God's ears" Yiddish proverb.
"Speak of the devil....." Bones of an English idiom, said when someone you've been talking about appears.
Noddy
They're both perfect. I was hoping to carry on the theme of poetry but I think you may well have come up with a couple of winners.
Now I'd better get to work!
(I might even rename myself BigEars in your honour!)
Tarah--
Thanks for the kind words--and by all means rename yourself if the shoe fits. Do you lust for the sugar water in other people's hummingbird feeders?
Probably be safer with sugar water than champagne, Noddy.
I find that champagne makes me see double but feel single!
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