Today I chatted with my colleague Brandi, who calls herself a 'part-time street whore'. I am not sure what full-time would mean, but she uses the word 'part-time' as a way to explain that a person can't just do one thing all the time without it going stale on her. We all need our hobbies.
I asked her about her tattoos. Many of us carry at least one tatttoo. My regular readers will know my dragon (in different versions throughout the years) pretty well by now. Brandi read me hers:
"Fortune favors the bold"
(I use the American spelling here, as that's the way her tattoo spells it) is the translation of a Latin proverb, which exists in several forms with slightly different wording, where Fortuna is the goddess of luck, such as
- audentes Fortuna iuvat (literally: "fortune favors the bold")
- audentes Fortuna adiuvat ("Fortune comes to the aid of those daring")
- Fortuna audaces iuvat (from the adjective audax, audacis, from the verb audeo), literally: "Fortune helps the bold".
You will realise I found all of this information on Wikipedia. Where would I be without them? On the streets probably, ohh wait ...
The other one you is a well-known quote, of which the origin is hard to find. The quote is often attributed to William W. Purkey, but the site Quote Investigator casts doubt on that. I will just say that it's a nice text:
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