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Appreciate all the "Thank you" comments that people take the time out to make. While we're at it, let's play a game: just post a proverb or saying from your own culture
I'll go first:
"If you want to move mountains tomorrow, you must begin by moving stones today" - African proverb
or something like that...
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A big thank you to everyone who posted a proverb. Very interesting and diverse
Thank you all!
That one sounds similar to Confucius “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
I'm partial to "When a loaf of bread looks like a banquet, I've no right buying tobacco. " - Grandpa Joe (Movie culture :D )
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"Two wrongs don't make a right" :)
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Yarrrr! o/
Hussar prey's to God for war, medic for a fever.
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Thank you for the game! Loved it back in highschool
"The smallest stump can flip the greatest chariot" - from Romania. Meaning that you don't have to be great to do great deeds.
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ABBA will dance like queens in IKEA on floors made out of meatballs
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Thanks Konyushenti
It's not proverb from my culture, it's Persian: "You see big woman - you look up, you see small woman - you look down"
If it's fake or not, I leave it for your consideration :) for me it may be the wisest proverb ever.
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"You can't have the barrel full of wine and a drunk wife."
"Good blood doesn't lie."
"Who doesn't have courage, may have legs."
Italian proverbs.
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Thanks for the Chance!
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Hmm.. Swedish proverbs.. Well then:
"A close shot won't kill any hares"
"Don't buy the pig while it's still in the bag"
"Don't shoot yourself in the foot"
and "He who waits for something good always waits too long"
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"Just ignore it and it'll go away" - United States proverb
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...otherwise bomb it.
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Jealousy is a passion, which searches with fervor for what creates pain.
This sound better in the original german:
"Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft."
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Thank You.
"No one belived when liar's house burned down" – tatar proverb.
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I've wanted this game for YEARS, thanks pal.
I dunno if there even ARE any British proverbs.
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I'd say "Keep calm and carry on" if that counts as a proverb.
After looking it up I guess it doesn't since the propaganda-poster from 1939 where it comes from was never published and more or less unknown until it got rediscovered it 2000.
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Jumped as skipped.
It's used to describe 2 methods with the same outcome.
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T.Hanks!
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Looks like no one from Poland has said anything yet, I guess I'll be the first. To be honest, I can't think of any that don't already exist in English, but I like how this one differs from the equivalent:
"Kto sieje wiatr, zbiera burzę." - "You reap what you sow."
What's interesting though, is that the Polish version goes more in-depth. The proverb literally translates as "The one, who sows wind, reaps a storm".
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I like this Polish version. It sounds almost like a slogan for an action blockbuster.
Also, whitelisted
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Haah, haven't thought about it that way... If I were to turn that into a movie slogan, I'd make it "If you want a storm, you'll have to sow wind"
Yayz :3 and vice-versa, although that's not worth much since I rarely do any exclusive GAs
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Or an air-bending motto for the Avatar XD
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"אין חכם כבעל נסיון" - "no-one is as smart as the experienced"
Thanks for the giveaway!
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What is that language of yours? I have a feeling it's Hebrew, because of that right-most character, which I'm pretty sure is an aleph, which I get to see from time to time as it represents a larger infinity than regular infinity in mathematics. I never see it printed, only handwritten though, so forgive me if I'm mistaken.
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Yes, it's Hebrew. The handwritten characters are actually quite different.
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Oh, I guess my professor was writing it as it's printed, and happens to have terrible handwriting :D He definitely does have terrible handwriting for me to have assumed that that's how you hand-write it.
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The dumbest farmer reaps the biggest potatoes. (Stupid people always win/are lucky.)
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"He who sleeps with feet out window wakes up with angry neighbors." -- unattributed
Okay, well it was funny in primary school.
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Thank you!
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"A fool and his money are soon parted"
Thank you!
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I couldn't find an actual proverb I liked, but I found this which was kind of interesting. :)
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Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet.
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Memory is like a bad friend; when you need it most it fails to be there.
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"If you did something right, people won't know you did anything at all"... Okay, stole that from Futurama, but it's still a great one >__>
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