2009-08-27, 05:06 PM
Zpyke Wrote:Heh, I was sure the saying "don't put all your eggs into one basket" came from the idea of not putting all your hope into one thing. And my dad uses it that way. Every damn day.
Actually that idiom is a cautionary tale not to be dependant on a single route of success. It's really got nothing to do with hopes and more to do with paranoia and contingency plans. Counting your chickens before the eggs are hatched on the other hand is about expectations and might be more what you were interpreting as.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.