That's nothing! There are plenty of men to-day who always get gold whoever they touch.
SAPPHO. A love-lorn poetess, who, failing to win the man she first loved, cured herself by jumping into the Mediterranean.
She probably acted on the old advice, "There's plenty more fish in the sea!"
TANTALUS. A proud king, who suffered in Hades the agonies of hunger and thirst, with food and drink always in sight, but always beyond reach.
Here on earth, the 50-cent table d'hote accomplishes the same result—besides costing you the fifty.