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Condemn a man within earshot; praise him at a distance.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about praise, man

If you spit against the wind, you spit in your own face.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about face, contentment

When the big bells ring, the little bells are not heard.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about ignorance, life, man

Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about home

It is not easy to meet Good, but it is easy to recognize it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about good, good luck

He who does not know how to serve cannot know how to command.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

Don't go selling the hide while the bear remains in the hole.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

It is better to look from the mountain than from the dungeon.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else's racehorse.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about garden, use

He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about companies

Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about games, devil, life, god

To give is to put.

Proverbs and old sayings

A belching toad portends rain.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain

He who paddles two canoes, sinks.

Proverbs and old sayings

Where God cooks, there is no smoke.

Proverbs and old sayings about kitchen, smoke, god

If you are ugly, learn how to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings about dance, contentment

A strong bull is seen by it's scars.

Proverbs and old sayings

A riddle made by God has no solution.

Proverbs and old sayings about god