Proverbs From Your Country

[Sungai Pusat]

In any contest for the prize being as important as a presidency for the country, no contestant will say: That's why I should not win.
-Mr Yustov, critic on Sungai Pusat's presidency election system

[Fairisia]

Jediato is hríjv tiata asijansa, supjediato swir hríjvsk ashasindi.
Give someone one dollar today, they'll expect you to give them two dollars tomorrow.

- King Dunord IV, 2010

[Coccygia]

'Tell people what they want to hear, and they'll believe anything you say.'

[Xarithis]

Wisdom of the Civil War:

"If it isn't broken, you didn't apply enough pressure."
"Don't drink it if it smells like almonds."

[Wonderchicken]

Can't take credit for them, but maybe I'll translate them in to Katothwa Re later...

"Gratitude is sister to Humility, and Pride is foe to both."
-James E. Talmage

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
-Cicero

"Good and evil both increase at compund interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
-C.S. Lewis

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-Helen Adams Keller

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee."
-William H. Walton

[Kalasparata]

What is human nature? It is the desire to be in authority and have control over it, but without it, human nature is also total Anarchy so God designed it to work (well sort of!)

[Kalasparata]

No God can do for you what your gun cannot

*cough
Cure Cancer
/cough*

[Kalasparata]

No matter how much you have, you always want more!

[Coccygia]

'Any model of human behaviour that assumes that people are rational is fundamentally and fatally flawed.'

'Nothing keeps you young at heart like emotional immaturity!'

[Work Time Fun]

"We are one. We are all. Submit.
"All glory to the Imperial King"

[Ibasira]

"In Ibàsira, the Ibàsiran way is normal."

(It means that what a person considers 'normal' is influenced by the environment he grew up in)

[Wonderchicken]

Smart people speak from experience. Smarter people, from experience, don't speak.

[Mashmaru]

Don't tell the jittery guy with the big gun you're right, he might not take it well.

[Panlu]

"Those who know the power of a gun will not use it lightly."

"A condor downed will never fly again; be careful."

(That's in English, anyway.)

And...This isn't exactly a proverb, but an expression of farewell is "Akene seru!" which means literally "Good luck!"

[Frenequesta]

"An army of diplomats is better than an army of soldiers"

"A violin string tightened too hard won't play" (Strictness can be counterproductive)

AND

Not quite a proverb, but an idiom:

"You've forgotten there are fish with the frogs" (You've committed fundamental attribution error)

[Kalasparata]

I don't want to be recognised for my work, just want my work to be recognised-
A man who demanded to remain anonymous

[Sufforia]

Do not encourage weeds, for it takes time to root them out.

[Wonderchicken]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

[Tergnitz]

"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

- Rear Adrmiral Joseph Setler (1912)

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason"

- CEO Derrick Henderson speaking at the First Annual Investor Summit of Bayliss Systems (2003)

[Kalasparata]

There is always a reason. ALWAYS! But noone ever said it was a good reason!-Unknown

[Sungai Pusat]

No one can tell you what to do, unless you choose to.
-Anoymonous

[Ancient Elysium]

In this nation people of the government always say:

"3 nails + 1 cross = 4 given"

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[Hironeidan]

"When the rock falls upon the egg, alas for the egg!

When the egg falls upon the rock, alas for the egg!"


Meaning sometimes, life just isn't fair.

"To bear the weight of a heavy burden is to become strong."

"You may as well try to catch a diving Gyrfalcon"

Meaning, that's impossible.

[Wilfred Test]

If Freedom wasn't free, it would be called A-few-monthly-payments-of-20 Pq-dom.

[My Damn State]

Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue.