Serbian proverbs

List

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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]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Cecil Palmer & Hayward 1913, p. 7.
1 2 3 4 5 Cecil Palmer & Hayward 1913, p. 8.

Sources

Cecil Palmer & Hayward (1913). National Proverbs: Serbia. Ferrestone Press. (Public Domain)

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