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• Hai sa bim puţin inainte să morim — "Let's drink a bit before we die." (Romanian.)
• "It could be worse; you could drop dead and not know it" — a Hungarian-born Australian on a Romanian train, Summer 2009.
• "Even the grass doesn't grow on Monday" — Romanian
• "[If] you fly, I'll buy." — American
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Spanish aphorisms
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• "Dime de que presumes, y dire de que careces." — Tell me what you presume, and I'll tell you what you're missing.
• El hombre, como el oso, cuanto feo mas hermoso. — The uglier a man, just like a bear, the more handsome.
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Dutch aphorisms
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• "Hoe harder het stinkt, hoe beter het blinkt." — The more it stinks, the more it shines (refering, in a bakery, to the eggwash that puts a sheen upon pastries.)
• "Hoe harder je malt, hoe verder het dalt." — The harder you pump, the further it sinks (referring to the lowering of ground-level in some cases of the evacuation of water from a polder.)
• "Ik sliep als 'n roos." — I slept like a rose.
• Don't drag dead cows from the lake. (Heard in English.)
• Ik zal je missen, als ik ga pissen — I'll miss you as I go piss.
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Irish aphorisms
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| "Don't work too hard"
And other Irish expressions on the subject...
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• "Hunger is a good sauce."
• "May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb."
• "He'd talk the hind legs off a donkey."
• "Yeah but sure... (what do you do?)" — an Irish way of genial resignation...
• "We're here for a good time, not a long time."
• "Up here for thinkin', down there for dancin'."
— Used in self-congratulation for a good "cop-on."
• "The best pint is the one you didn't plan."
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* "Before you begin":
In my experience of drinking in Spain, it was common that the barman would keep a tab either in his head, in chalk on countertop, or by some other method — and you'd pay as you're leaving.
Once, a barman asked me how many beers I had had; and I didn't get a feeling that this was an unusual question.
• Return to "paga antes" ...
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