Serbian proverbs

List
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  • God does not pay every Saturday.[1]
  • When the sun shines on me I think but little of the moon.[1]
  • Tell the truth and make thyself scarce.[1]
  • The just man laughs and the guilty hides himself.[1]
  • No trade without tools.[1]
  • Where right is of no use wrong will not avail.[2]
  • Who does not keep a cat keeps mice.[2]
  • No resolution without discussion.[2]
  • The miser ends by giving more, and the lazy man by going further.[2]
  • What is play to horses is death to donkeys.[2]

References
  1. Cecil Palmer & Hayward 1913, p. 7.
  2. Cecil Palmer & Hayward 1913, p. 8.

Sources
  • Cecil Palmer & Hayward (1913). National Proverbs: Serbia. Ferrestone Press. (Public Domain)
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