Polish Proverbs (American style?)

Sokrates, you're good at this sort of stuff; Any real historical Polish proverbs come to mind?

Huh? I never heard anybody polish saying them. Did you?

maybe not a proverb but a saying : z gory ci za to dziekuje - i thank you from the top of the mountain.

I heard this one from a Polish/Finnish American;
"Women have a less accurate measure of time than men: there's a clock in Adam, none in Eve."

What's his name again?lol
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g0JFQDmlVME

These are hilarious! I love it!

I didn't know Confucius was a Pole.:)

what's the name of the show i don't think i've even watched this? He played a Polish American?

Would you believe...........(ta da)..........."Banacek"


You must look to your right more often. There you will find solace, and Banacek.


Yes, but he is a very good actor; Once, he played the part of a Nigerian Pygmy although he walked on his knees a lot in that film. He was never able to properly genuflect again but that's another story..........

"Chicago Code", new tv series features cop advice proverbs:
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So he's playing Jarek Wysocki a Polish American Chicago cop a.k.a. "the Polish cowboy" lol

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The ones I remember my Polish grandparents saying are:
He who lends to a friend makes an enemy
The rich man has only two holes in his nose, the same as the poor man
The mistakes of the doctor are covered by the earth
Listen much and speak little
No fish without bones
Girl who fly upside down will have crack up

@johnny reb
I know most of them except for the second and the last one. At least nothing comes to my mind. :)

Bogacz ma tylko dwie dziurki w nosie jak i ubogi


Mowa jest srebrem, a milczenie złotem

@Ziemowit
Never heard the first one. The second is reallly well known - just didn't think of it reading the paraphrased English version.

Banaczek, along with Colombo and Kojak, was a detective series shown on communist TV in 1970s. We watched them all as excellent entertainment.

You mean on 70s TV. We had the same sh1tty foreign TV shows in our capitalist paradise.

Yes, but to us, behind the Iron Curtain, they weren`t sh....ty.. We could see how the West looks like.

They were for us. Because American TV had a lot of ad breaks and the BBC had none, the TV shows were edited to make British versions by adding stuff from the cutting room floor. The government had to step in and restrict the amount of nasty cheap American TV shows.

We preferred Koziołek Matołek...

I see.

But the idea of inventing those amusing "Polish" proverbs for the Banaczek series was excellent.

"When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it's not there for the sack races."
"Though the hippopotamus has no sting in its tail, the wise man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee."
"A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn."
"When a wolf is chasing your sleigh, throw him a raisin cookie, but don't stop to bake a cake."
"Just because the cat has her kittens in the oven doesn't make them biscuits."

In another thread certain poster who likes bickering with me said he was hoping I would leave the forum for a longer time.
I replied amusingly with a Polish proverb: Hope is the mother of fools.

Does it have its counterpart in English???

I've heard the same one in English.

Also " Hope deludes the foolish man".

More from Banacek

"You can read all the books in the library my son, but the cheese will still smell after four days."
"No matter how warm the smile on the face of the Sun, the cat still has her kittens under the porch."
"Even a one thousand złoty note cannot tap dance."
"Only the centipede can hear all the hundred footsteps of his uncle."
"An old Polish proverb says, 'A wolf that takes a peasant to supper probably won't need any breakfast.'"
"If you're not sure that it's potato borscht, there could be orphans working in the mines."


Amasing!