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| Darkovan Proverb
A devil with fine manners can still carry you only to hell.A hawk kills because it is his nature; a man because it is his pleasure.A rabbithorn cannot be a war-horse and will only become a laughingstock if he should try.A roan horse and a black can travel equally far in a day's journey.All the smiths . . . can't mend a broken egg.All women are alike when the lamp is out.An oath broken by one does not thereafter bind the other.Bare is brotherless back.Better lady in a cottage than serving-woman in a castle.Call a woman a harlot and you make her one.Can a burst dam be mended with toothpicks?Chickens can't go back into eggs.Does the left hand chop off the right?Don't ask a dog to judge between a pillar and a tree.Don't kick the horse you have to ride.Don't trust your bone to another man's dog.Don't try to buy fish in the Dry Towns.Each man must ride the road of his own fate.Eggs should not fight stones.Fire is a good servant but a poor master.Get three Darkovans together and they hold a dance.Give the Goddess her due, even when her due is grief.Good news crawls on its belly; bad news has wings.Grief unspoken turns to poison.He who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.If blood is spilt on you before breakfast, you will shed blood before nightfall.If ill luck were cheese, dairy-women would go wanting work.If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.If the left hand battles the right, who wins?If you are going to steal horses, steal thoroughbreds.If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.If you have a bulldozer, you don't need a snow shovel.If you lie down with a man, you may rise up as a woman.If you listen to dogs barking, you'll go deaf and never learn much.It is ill done to chain a dragon for roasting your meat.It is no use fretting after last winter's snow.It needs no laran to prophesy snow at midwinter.Kinsmen are born, but friendship is a gift of the gods.Love is love no matter whence it comes or in what form.Love is the art of making exceptions.Lucky charms protect you only if you have your own luck.Necessity could make a thief. . . .No choice is ever wholly unregretted, each brings more joy and more sorrow than we can foresee.No man can make another's destiny and all the wishing in the world will not make it so.No man is so young he cannot teach, or so old he cannot learn.One lamp can't light two houses.Take care how you beseech the gods for a gift, for they will give it to you.Take care how you beseech the gods, they may answer you.That land fares ill where the king's but a babe.The best horse can't wear two saddles.The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities to his corpse; the dead in hell has too much else to grieve for.The mouse in the wall may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about it.The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if he hasn't the wits to keep his mouth shut.There is nothing so evil as the mind of a virtuous woman.Water can float a boat or sink it.What is done under the four moons need never be recalled nor regretted.You can't bind a cloud even with copper chains.You can't teach an old dog how to gnaw a bone.You cannot eat nuts without breaking some shells.You cannot forge a hammer from featherpod fluff, nor spin spidersilk from precious copper.You cannot take hawks without climbing some cliffs. |
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