Good weather for one is foul for another — Mythoi

Motif

Good weather for one is foul for another.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · One man's food is another man's poison. · view the constellation · filed as U148

Cited in the index

general Cf. Heywood's Play of the Weather.

Within the index

Filed under One man's food is another man's poison.

1 finer motif beneath it

Bird wants sunshine, worm clouds

Filed beside it

Enmity between fisherman and dweller on the river. Fishing stirs up the water and makes it unfit for drinking. (Cf. U31.) Ox likes loving strokes of man; flea fears them Collier and fuller cannot live together: one makes things clean, the other soils them Nightingale cannot lodge with birds whose nest is made of manure Royalty unable to endure coarse entertainment Animals try unsuccessfully to exchange food What is one man's food is another man's poison – miscellaneous

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