Yugoslav Proverbs

Yugoslav Proverbs carry Balkan folk wit from a once multiethnic federation. They echo village life, partisan memory, and the art of living together—proud, ironic, and practical about honor, work, and neighbors.

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. (Yugoslav Proverb)
If you spit against the wind, you spit in your own face. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else's racehorse. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Patience can break through iron doors. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
What is impossible to change is best to forget. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
When the big bells ring, the little bells are not heard. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
A good rest is half the job. (Yugoslav Proverb)
Complain to the one who can help you. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Condemn a man within earshot; praise him at a distance. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Don't go selling the hide while the bear remains in the hole. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
He who humbles himself too much gets trampled upon. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Hours once lost cannot be regained. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
I am scratching myself where I am itching. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
If ever you should need my life, come and take it. (Yugoslav Proverb)
He who is late may gnaw the bones. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
He who does not know how to serve cannot know how to command. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
Everyone will sit on a little donkey. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb
No one likes to be the first to step on the ice. View proverb
Yugoslav Proverb