Polish ProverbsDefinitions

Age is a sorry traveling companion.

Autumn is a widow while spring is a maiden, summer a mother, and winter a stepmother.

Beauty will not season your soup.

Beauty is the seasoning of virtue.

Bread is the staff of life. Without bread even game is tasteless.

Capitalism is a system whereby man exploits man... while under socialism the reverse is true.

Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at midday, and lead at night.

Friendship is like wine — the older the better.

Hard work is necessary to reap a reward — bread cries when eaten unearned.

Hope is the mother of fools.

Life is like the moon; now dark, now full.