Proverbs from Croatia

 

 

 

The more eggs, the thicker the soup.

 

 

 

The starving man will never burn his bread.

 

 

 

The udder of a neighbor's cow is always bigger.

 

 

 

To follow everyone is wrong, to follow no one is worse.

 

 

 

Truth's violinist is always beaten with his own bow.

 

 

 

It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly.

 

 

 

If you deliberate for too long, you will end up with leftovers.

 

 

 

If you ask for too much at once, you will come home with an empty bag.

 

 

 

Don't measure a wolf's tail until he is dead.

 

 

 

A good friend is worth more than a bad brother.

 

 

 

You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.

 

 

 

Woe to him who sits upon a branch.

 

 

 

Without money one cannot go anywhere, not even to church.

 

 

 

With a full belly it is easy to talk about fasting.

 

 

 

Where the army goes there is no grass.

 

 

 

Where right has no power -- there power likes to be.

 

 

 

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

 

 

 

A good horse has many faults; a bad one has hardly any.

 

 

 

A guest will not know what fasting means.

 

 

 

An empty barrel sings in the wind.

 

 

 

As soon as he set her down she said that she was tired.

 

 

 

Better a bad harvest than a bad neighbor.

 

 

 

Better be in debt than in shame.

 

 

 

Check before you bite if it is bread or a stone.

 

 

 

Even a dog will not eat a leg without flesh.

 

 

 

Every bird has a hawk above it.

 

 

 

The hunchback sees the hump of others -- never his own.

 

 

 

The drunkard thinks of only one thing and the barman of something else.

 

 

 

The devil can make a pot but he can't make a lid.

 

 

 

Save three pieces of gold and the fourth one will fall into your lap.

 

 

 

Polite words open iron gates.

 

 

 

No solutions without discussions.

 

 

 

Much more than you have sown will grow in your garden.

 

 

 

Lies never pay the toll.

 

 

 

It is better to work in your own land than to count your money abroad.

 

 

 

It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years.

 

 

 

If you take too long to choose, you will end up with the leftovers.

 

 

 

If sorrow would not talk it would die.

 

 

 

His whole life he carried his wife on his back.

 

 

 

God does not love those who have not suffered.

 

 

 

Feed your horse as a friend, mount him as an enemy.