May you be cursed with chronic anxiety about the weather.
John Burroughs (1837-1921) |
May you dig up your father by moonlight and make soup of his bones.
Traditional Fiji Islands curse |
May you melt off the earth like snow off the ditch.
Traditional Irish curse |
May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.
Traditional gypsy curse |
May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.
Traditional Arab curse |
Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave and he will rise and steal a horse.
Traditional Lancashire saying |
The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve misled Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded them both in German. Then the angel drove them from Paradise in Hungarian.
Traditional Polish saying |
The Lithuanian is stupid like a pig but cunning like a serpent.
Traditional Polish saying |
The only good that comes from the east is the sun.
Traditional Portuguese saying |
The Pole is a thief; the Prussian a traitor; the Bohemian a heretic; and the Swabian a chatterbox.
Traditional Ukrainian saying |
The Pole is there to oppress and the peasant to endure.
Traditional Ukrainian saying |
The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.
Traditional German saying. |
The Spaniard is a bad servant, but a worse master.
Traditional English saying |
There are only two types of Chinese - those who give bribes and those who take them.
Russian proverb |
Trust a Brahman before a snake, and a snake before a harlot, and a harlot before an Afghan.
Traditional Hindu saying |
