Proverbs at Internet Archive: Lipinski

Here's a bilingual book of Polish proverbs from the Hippocrene proverbs series: Dictionary of 1000 Polish Proverbs by Mirosław Lipinski.

The book is organized alphabetically in Polish based on a keyword in each proverb, as you can see in this screenshot:

Notice that sometimes there is an English translation, but sometimes there is an equivalent English proverb (in italics) which is not actually a translation of the Polish. That's the case for one of the apple sayings here: "Nie każde takie jabłko wewnątz jak zewnątz" translated literally would be "Not every apple is the same inside as it is outside." So, beware of the versions in italics; they are NOT necessarily even close to the Poilsh original in terms of the actual wording.

BTW: If you want a quick way to type a few words quickly in Polish without switching to a Polish keyboard, I highly recommend this great site: Polish.TypeIt.org

Here are some of my favorites (in English):

• An empty barrel makes the most noise.
• When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.
• The devil doesn't sleep.
• The man has not yet been born who can please everyone.
• The tree falls not at the first blow.
• Yesterday is the teacher of today.
• One today is better than two tomorrows.
• A bell calls people to church but is never in church itself.
• Fortune's wheel is turning.
• As the pot, so too its lid.
• If my aunt had whiskers, she'd be my uncle.
• Just one fool can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
• The most foolish man is the one who thinks himself wise.
• A guest in the house is God in the house.
• Who knows what lies beyond the mountain.
• You have no mountain without a valley.
• On the highest mountains the lightning strikes.
• Don't play; you won't lose.
• The apple doesn't fall far from the apple tree.
• As long as there are people, there will be mistakes.
• Man does not live to eat, but rather he eats in order to live.
• It is a virtue above all virtues to keep your tongue behind your teeth.

Here's one I made into a slide in a World Proverbs slideshow:

I was a Polish major in college, so this book of proverbs is one that I really like, and there's a bibliography in the back if you are in search of more Polish proverbs. 

Dictionary of 1000 Polish Proverbs

by Mirosław Lipinski