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  • an “Ancient Chinese curse”: “May you live in interesting times”
  • Sailing To Byzantium by Robert Silverberg:“He that is in the dance, must needs dance on, though he do but hop”.
  • Asimov: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…”
  • “Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying” — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  • “Tko se dima ne nadimi, taj se vatre ne nagrije” (eng. to get warm from the fire, you must suffer the smoke.)
  • “Burrasca furiusa prestu passa.” (eng. A furious storm passes quickly.)
  • “Una bedda jurnata nun fa stati.” (eng. One beautiful day doesn't make a summer.)
  • “Medicus curat, natura sanat”. (eng. Doctor fixes, nature heals)
  • “Post nubila Phoebus.: (eng. Sun comes after the rain.)
  • “Svi cvjetovi budućnosti su u sjemenu sadašnjosti.” (eng. All the flowers of the future are in the seed of the present)
  • “Niko ne zna šta se iza brda valja.” (eng. No one knows what rolls behind the mountain)
  • “Šišmiš leti kasno-sutra vrijeme krasno!” (eng. The bat flies late, tomorrow wonderful weather.)
  • “Ne guli kore da ne bude gore!” (eng. Don't peel the bark, it might get worse)
  • “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Proverbs for weather forecasts in German and Croatian: http://www.crometeo.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8007
  • “Vatra vatru ne žeže.”(eng. fire does not burn fire)
  • “Vjetar kad hoće da prestane onda najvećma duše.” (eng. when the wind wants to stop, it blows the hardest)
  • “Zimnoj vedrini i ljetnoj oblačini nije verovati.” (eng. Blue skies in the winter and clouds in the summer cannot be trusted)
  • “I voda zube ima.” (Water has teeth too)
  • “More nevjerno polje.” (Sea, a treacherous field)
  • “Što više grmi, manje dažda nahodi.” (eng. The more it thunders, the less it rains)
  • “Što leto pocepa, to zima ne okrpi.” (eng. What the summer rips, the winter doesn't fix)
  • “Da nema vjetra, pauci bi nebo premrežili.” (eng. If there was no wind, spiders would cover the sky in their webs)
  • “Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom.” (eng. What happens with my world, happens with my flower)
  • “Kad grmi, svak se sebe boji. ” (eng. When it thunders, everyone is afraid of themselves)
  • Make hay when the sun shines
  • When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year.
  • No chicken will fall into a fire the second time
  • Life like a fire begins in smoke and end in ashes
  • It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire
  • If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you
  • If you have a head of wax you should not go near the fire
  • Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor
  • No year has two summers
  • Better a small fire that warms than a big fire than burns you
  • Summer will not last forever
  • During the winter eat long fishes, during the summer eat short fishes.
  • When the weather changes, the beast sneezes.
  • When the cat hops around, bad weather is on the way.
  • Furious storm passes quickly
  • A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous.
  • The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden
  • Much science, much sorrow.
  • Experience is the mother of science
  • We are the authors of our own disasters
  • The past is the future of the present
  • He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
  • Whosoever chooses to deny their past can not expect to find a future.
  • Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future.
  • All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present
  • Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.
  • The future struggles against being mastered.
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  • Last modified: 2013-10-07 04:35
  • by sarah.neville