Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires — Mythoi

Motif

Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Decisiveness of conduct. · view the constellation · filed as J1041.1

Cited in the index

general Type 1830
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 218 No. 51
general Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 495), 121 (ST 304)
general Halm Aesop No. 166.

Within the index

Filed under Impossibility of pleasing everyone. One must act therefore without awaiting everyone's approval.

Filed beside it

Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him

Carried in tale types

Producing the Weather (previously In Trial Sermon the Parson Promises the Laymen the Kind of Weather they Want) · ATU 1830 1 recorded variant

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