# Klingon Proverbs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095 "2003-10-23T12:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/21 "2003-10-24T06:55:25Z")
Man can live by blood alone. Don’t count your targs before they are clamped to the throat of your enemy. Good batleths make good neighbors. All’s fair in war and… more war. The best things in life are pointy. Dead men tell no tales, but a well-placed corpse is eloquent indeed. Never stab a gift horse in the anus. Life is a box of chocolates. They look like shit and eventually one will be full of a dishonorable man’s poison. Beauty is in the blood of the beheaded. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/22 "2003-10-24T07:42:41Z")
Money can’t buy happiness. Unless you use it to buy a Bird of Prey armed with quantum torpedos. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/23 "2003-10-24T07:47:47Z")
Drink not with thine boss’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/24 "2003-10-24T09:58:08Z")
Faint-hearted moments Bring thousands of years of scorn - The choice is not hard. The means justify the ends: If the war be good, the cause was sufficient. Better to die with an admirable foe than live with a contemptible friend. Form follows function: what use to spill all your enemy’s guts with a single splendid blow, if you slip in the gore and fall victim to a lesser man? Every Klingon knows that _gagh_ tastes revolting, but it is amusing to watch the reactions of humans who do not know this. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/25 "2003-10-24T12:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Drink not with thine boss’s daughter. _Classic Klingon Reply_ Unless you intend to challenge him to a contest of strength and honor for the prize of his daughter! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/26 "2003-10-24T12:32:23Z")
Klingons on marriage: No man enjoys you having intercourse with his daughter, no matter ho many licenses you have. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/27 "2003-10-24T14:05:22Z")
You can attract more Targs with a bloody corpse than you can with honey. A knife in your enemies chest is more honourable than two in his back. If you have a secret remember: A blind man may not see you but he could tell, a deaf man may not hear you but he can see. A mute can not say anything but he knows. A dead man is more preferable than these. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/28 "2003-10-24T14:41:33Z")
Nobody doesn’t like SaraLee! Under pain of death! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/29 "2003-10-24T16:43:22Z")
kingpengiv: Kang knifed the Albino in the back on DS9’s _Blood Oath_. Does that count? Or was that a “Whatever spills blood suits me” thing? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/30 "2003-10-24T17:42:50Z")
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Napoleon, actually, but it **could** be Klingon.) ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/31 "2003-10-24T18:14:09Z")
Honor only lasts as long as a man can fight, but dishonor is eternal. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/32 "2003-10-24T18:21:26Z")
Ten thousand enemies cannot stain your honor as much as one wrong friend. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_B.Phart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Capt\_B.Phart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_B.Phart)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/33 "2003-10-24T19:32:11Z")
Too many cooks spoil the bIreQtagh, kill them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/34 "2003-10-25T00:27:46Z")
“What is sauce for the Targ may also be used to drown it.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/35 "2003-10-25T00:38:54Z")
Always look before you leap, else you might not land on your enemy and break his spine. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/36 "2003-10-25T01:18:54Z")
“Where there is smoke, there is fire. But, hopefully, you shall be long gone before anybody notices.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/37 "2003-10-25T01:29:47Z")
All that glistens is not entrails. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/38 "2003-10-25T01:43:13Z")
He who fights and runs away Shall be hunted down by his comrades ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/39 "2003-10-25T02:07:04Z")
A coward dies a thousand deaths. A hero kills a thousand cowards. ---
**Author:** ![Sinungaling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Sinungaling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinungaling)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingon-proverbs/209095/40 "2003-10-25T02:49:17Z")
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