Czechoslovakian Proverbs

Czechoslovakian Proverbs blend Czech wit and Slovak warmth, born from a shared state founded in 1918. They prize craft, thrift, and quiet defiance—echoes of life between mountains, workshops, and the Velvet Revolution.

Custom and law are sisters.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Only in water can you learn to swim.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

The person who God shows a treasure to must dig it out himself.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

There is no wise response to a foolish remark.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Water is cheaper than medicine.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

If you buy things you don't need, you are stealing from yourself.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

The way to be safe is never to feel secure.

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What is soon ripe is soon rotten.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Don't jump high in a room with a low ceiling.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Sayings of Czech origin.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Pride will have a fall.

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Patience brings roses.

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Repetition is the mother of wisdom.

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You walk so long with a jar for water, until the handle breaks off.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

If a woman doesn't know what she has to answer then the sea is dry.

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Forbidden fruit tastes best.

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Speaking is silver, silence is gold.

Czechoslovakian Proverb

Choose your woman with a velvet glove, but control her with a fist of iron.

Czechoslovakian Proverb