Cultural sayings.

Originally posted by Seitse
Ei elämästä selviä hengissä
Nobody gets out alive from life

Las penas con pan son menos
Sorrows are less when you have bread

Ha! the very two ideas that gave rise to The Doors.

Originally posted by FMF
Ha! the very two ideas that gave rise to The Doors.

It is not a coincidence that Jim's real name was José Morrismäki

Yob Felni mint meg iedni-Hungarian
means: Better to be fearful than to suffer a fright. (means keep your doors locked just in case...)

And from the Han Civilization:

Ziziweizizi, buziweibuzi, shiziye

Wisdom is recognizing that you know if you know and recognizing that you do not know if you do not know.

Sanrenxingbuyouwoshiye.

I can always find my teacher from three men. (I find what is virtuous from them and create it in myself, and I find what is vicious from them and rid of the vice in myself.)

And from the Yamato Civilization,

Hitonochoujouhanusume.
Steal (emulate) the virtues of others.

Korondemotadadehaokinu.
Literal: If you trip, don't get up for free. Meaning: Life gives you lemon, make lemonade.

"He's so far [back] in the closet, he's in Narnia." I personally love this one, as it's a reference to a book I love, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, but refers to how much someone is hiding his homosexuality.

"He's going so slow, he'd have to speed up to stop." That's pretty slow!

I have a friend who says "Hell to the NO!" Which is a dramatic way of saying "No way!"