Serbian proverbs
List
- God does not pay every Saturday.[1]
- When the sun shines on me I think but little of the moon.[1]
- Tell the truth and make thyself scarce.[1]
- The just man laughs and the guilty hides himself.[1]
- No trade without tools.[1]
- Where right is of no use wrong will not avail.[2]
- Who does not keep a cat keeps mice.[2]
- No resolution without discussion.[2]
- The miser ends by giving more, and the lazy man by going further.[2]
- What is play to horses is death to donkeys.[2]
gollark: I'd expect that warships are fairly expensive.
gollark: The UK's is... somewhat less bad, as at least recently had a vaguely credible third party, and it doesn't have a system quite as bad as the electoral college, at least.
gollark: It *is* annoying how badly many countries' electoral systems are broken.
gollark: But they didn't really want to explicitly say as much because it would sound bad.
gollark: A plausible explanation I heard about the whole thing is that the Navy was assuming that it wouldn't go away for a while, and that the people on their ships were not very at risk of bad symptoms but also likely to get infected in large numbers and couldn't really be pulled out of service.
References
- Cecil Palmer & Hayward 1913, p. 7.
- Cecil Palmer & Hayward 1913, p. 8.
Sources
- Cecil Palmer & Hayward (1913). National Proverbs: Serbia. Ferrestone Press. (Public Domain)
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