Nya tider kräver nya ordspråk

Jag kunde inte låta bli. Jag kopierade ett antal ordspråk som en facebookvän lagt upp på sin profil. Dessutom hämtar jag ett antal på engelska som Golda Meir var upphovsperson till, eller som hon använde sej av...

Nya tider kräver nya ordspråk.

Den man ligger med får bädda.

Den som tar, han har.

Det man inte minns, har inte hänt.

Det man inte vet, har man ingen aning om.

Det vi inte gör idag slipper vi göra om i morgon.

Förtala är silver, förtiga är guld.

Gammal kärlek kostar alltid.

Har man slagit yxan i båten får man ro som fan.

Liten stuga kallas ofta stort dass.

Man måste kyssa många grodor innan man hittar sitt svin.

Den som bara kollar i backspegeln kör oftare i diket.

Den som dricker ensam har bara sig själv att fylla.

Den som gräver en grop åt andra får 188:50 i timmen.

Den som spar han har men inte roligt.

Det finns inga dumma frågor, bara dumma människor.



Golda's följer...


"There is only one thing I hope to see before I die and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore."

"At work, you think of the children you've left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself, your heart is rent."

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon: no alternative."

"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."

"It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? … Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

"The Muslims can fight and lose, then come back and fight again. But Israel can only lose once."

"There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist."

"[The Arabs] will stop fighting us when they love their children more than they hate [Jews]."

"When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons."



Ett annat som Golda sägs ligga bakom lyder ungefär:

"Jag är för jämlikhet mellan könen. Men säg det inte till min man för då tror han att han ska få något att säga till om".