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Polish Wisdom
Quotations by Famous Poles
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Frederic Chopin (1810 ? 1849)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie?Skłodowska (1867 ? 1934)
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it
Pope John Paul II (1920 ? 2005)
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul II (1920 ? 2005)
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa, (1943 - ) former President of Poland
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906 ? 1966) Polish Writer, Poet & Satirist
Polish Proverbs:
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
A noisy cow gives little milk.
Better to lose with a wise man than to win with a fool.
Eagles fly alone, sheep flock together.
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day
The news of a good deed travels far, but the news of a bad one travels even farther.
Words must be weighed, not counted.
Who digs pits under others falls into them himself.
Who lacks armament should avoid argument.
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