Theseus
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A person who does not plan ahead and think matters through becomes involved in risky or unfavorable situations which prudent people avoid. Same as 'look before you leap' (?) according to Wiktionary.
--I've never heard this symphony and here I am conducting it—oh well, fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
--He tried to mediate in their unending argument—fools rush in....
--Alan volunteered to be chairman and now he regrets it. Fools rush in, is all I can say.
First coined by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Criticism (1709): "No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd ... Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Thucydides bk.2 §, 40 - in the context of Pericles' Funeral Oration - writes αμαθία μεν θράσος, λογισμός δ' όκνον φέρει but, further, Menander in his Γνῶμαι Μονόστιχοι, Ρήση Υπ.Αρίθ.33 writes Ο αμαθής είναι θρασύς, an almost perfect match! Perhaps I could hear from you what you think of these observations?
See especiallly http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fools-rush-in-where-angels-fear-to-tread.html
From an evangelical site it has -as often - religious overtones:-
'We should not be shocked to find the death of Sarah recorded as a part of the biography of Abraham; however, of the twenty verses in this chapter, less than two of them refer to the emotional response of Abraham to his wife’s death. No romanticist could tolerate this! The remaining eighteen verses have to do with the purchase of the plot where Sarah is buried.
I know that “fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” but I want us to come to this text fully convinced that God has a word for us here. Furthermore, I believe that we must seek the greatest part of our instruction from the greater part of the passage—the purchase of the plot of ground in which Sarah is buried.':devil:
--I've never heard this symphony and here I am conducting it—oh well, fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
--He tried to mediate in their unending argument—fools rush in....
--Alan volunteered to be chairman and now he regrets it. Fools rush in, is all I can say.
First coined by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Criticism (1709): "No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd ... Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Thucydides bk.2 §, 40 - in the context of Pericles' Funeral Oration - writes αμαθία μεν θράσος, λογισμός δ' όκνον φέρει but, further, Menander in his Γνῶμαι Μονόστιχοι, Ρήση Υπ.Αρίθ.33 writes Ο αμαθής είναι θρασύς, an almost perfect match! Perhaps I could hear from you what you think of these observations?
See especiallly http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fools-rush-in-where-angels-fear-to-tread.html
From an evangelical site it has -as often - religious overtones:-
'We should not be shocked to find the death of Sarah recorded as a part of the biography of Abraham; however, of the twenty verses in this chapter, less than two of them refer to the emotional response of Abraham to his wife’s death. No romanticist could tolerate this! The remaining eighteen verses have to do with the purchase of the plot where Sarah is buried.
I know that “fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” but I want us to come to this text fully convinced that God has a word for us here. Furthermore, I believe that we must seek the greatest part of our instruction from the greater part of the passage—the purchase of the plot of ground in which Sarah is buried.':devil:
