40 Croatian Proverbs / Page 2
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It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly.22.
Lies never pay the toll.23.
Much more than you have sown will grow in your garden.24.
No solutions without discussions.25.
Polite words open iron gates.26.
Save three pieces of gold and the fourth one will fall into your lap.27.
The devil can make a pot but he can't make a lid.28.
The drunkard thinks of only one thing and the barman of something else.29.
The hunchback sees the hump of others -- never his own.30.
The more eggs, the thicker the soup.31.
The starving man will never burn his bread.32.
The udder of a neighbor's cow is always bigger.33.
To follow everyone is wrong, to follow no one is worse.34.
Truth's violinist is always beaten with his own bow.35.
Where right has no power -- there power likes to be.36.
Where the army goes there is no grass.37.
With a full belly it is easy to talk about fasting.38.
Without money one cannot go anywhere, not even to church.39.
Woe to him who sits upon a branch.40.
You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.