Your favourite Polish proverb?

Got any favourite Polish proverb or sayings
Mine include:

Pijak pije, pijak ma, pijakowi Pan Bóg da!

Jak trwoga to do Boga, jak bida to do Żyda!

Mądry Polak po szkodzie.

It would be a good idea to give an English translation for non Polish speakers, thanks.

This the type of horse crap we can expect from you, is it?

I have Never heard it before - how it goes in Polish ?

A polish friend i have on facebook said it to me -.- i dont know and not sure if its polish! but she mentioned that it was a polish proverb!


What do you mean?
It's not from me,

Hypertyper,You can't be making statements like the one that followed that proverb.tone it down

I am unable to delete my last statement, why?

You can't. You have a few minutes after posting to edit anything you want to change, but once it's posted you'll have to ask a moderator to delete it.

Polonius3

Pijak pije, pijak ma, pijakowi Pan Bóg da! - The drunakrd drinks, the drunkard has and God gives to the drunkard,

Jak trwoga to do Boga, jak bida to do Żyda! When in dangefr turn to God, When in financial straits turn to the Jew!

Mądry Polak po szkodzie. A Pole is wise only after incurring harm..

My fave PRL-era proverb is: Kto pod kim dołki kopie.....temu Pan Bóg daje.
The original says: Whoever digs pitholes beneath someone else ends up falling into them himself..
The skewed PRL version (a hbrid combining two different sayings) goes:God gives to him who digs pitholes beneath someone else.
(Loses somethign in translation, innit?)

"Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true."

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind"

actually ,i don't know the meaning but it's not hard for a polish native

Cieszy mię ten rym, Polak mądr po szkodzie
Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie
Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,
Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi

Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584), poet

My grandmother, may she rest in peace would say: 'If you know how to count, then count on yourself!'

Gdzie kucharek szesc, tam nie ma co jesc = Too many cooks spoil the broth

Madry Polak po szkodzie = You're always smarter after the fact

Taki pan, taki kram = As is the leader, so goes the leadership

Przyszła kryska na Matyska - the cat`s reproachable behaviour has been stopped and punished at last. Today used about humans.