The Internet never forgets
Meaning: Digital actions persist permanently; careless words or images posted online create lasting consequences beyond your control or deletion.
Origin: A saying of the internet age, current since the spread of the web in the 1990s and 2000s: whatever is posted online can resurface forever. No first use has been traced.
More proverbs about Perseverance
- There's a first time for everything — It is wise to try different sorts of things or experiences that one is unaccustomed to or…
- Third time's the charm — Persistence through repeated attempts eventually succeeds where earlier tries failed.
- Throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick — Regarding this "mud" term in particular, it may possibly reference a technique of buildin…
- Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl — Association with morally corrupt people inevitably corrupts your own character and behavi…
- Advice comes too late when a thing is done. — Counsel offered after the deed is already done is worthless.
- Every one has a penny to spend at a new ale-house. — Novelty draws everyone's custom; people always find a coin for the latest attraction.
From our untranslatable words
- Pochemuchka — A person — usually a child — who asks an endless stream of questions, one 'why?' after an…
- Razliubit — To fall out of love — the process of ceasing to love someone you once loved, leaving behi…
- Mamihlapinatapai — The look between two people who both want the same thing but neither is willing to initia…