Give Us a Piece of Advice!

If we are choosing from our own cultural tradition, I figure I could use a quote from Hávamál ("words of the high one"), an Old Norse collection of maxims and sayings. One paragraph goes:

"The unwise man is awake all night,
and ponders everything over;
when morning comes he is weary in mind,
and all is a burden as ever."

A simple advice this one, but seems impossible to carry through with in practice.

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri Saib Tabrizi. a Persian poet of the Indian style, says: Daste niaz ke pishe kasan koni deraz Pol bastei ke bogzari ze abruye khish It is dificcult to translate it into English exactly, anyway he says "When you stretch your hand to beg, you have in fact built a bridge that your honour crosses it." (you lose your honour)

I liked this one. Anyway, the translation is good, but the 'it' is redundant there. Does he also say how to make my honour come back??

One comes to mind:
''Never tease a cobra with a bare foot.'' - my philosophy teacher? Acutally, she claimed it be a Mongolian proverb, but I doubt. It's probably another of her jokes. The original goes like this: ''Neser kobru bosou nohou.'' Quite a useful advice, I think.

Originally posted by nuvolari "Don't eat the yellow snow ! " That's a good bit of advice. Who said it ?

The goode olde one...perhaps some Thule mother to her kid?




Edited by Slayertplsko - 23-Sep-2008 at 15:42

Never wear a steel hat in a storm.