190 Bulgarian Proverbs / Page 6
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If you would live long, open your heart.102.
If your neighbor's house is on fire, make haste to put out the fire in your own house.103.
It is easier to fondle lassies, than to cut timbers.104.
It is easy to be the father of children already born.105.
Let the man who has suffered ask it -- not the man who has travelled.106.
Life is a ladder -- some will climb up it, others down.107.
Life is a stairway - some are going up, others are going down.108.
Man is harder than a stone and more brittle than an egg.109.
Many people wash their hands to have dinner with the bishop, only a few sit down to his table.110.
Measure twice, cut once.111.
Money tempts women, women tempt men.112.
Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors.113.
New day -- new destiny.114.
No hero without a wound.115.
Not Every nun becomes Mother Superior.116.
One does not get crucified, one crucifies oneself.117.
One gentle word opens a gate of iron.118.
One learns as long as one lives and still dies a fool.119.
One swallow doesn't make a spring.120.
Only other people's eggs are double-yolked.