A bird in your hand is worth more than 100 in the forest.

A book holds a house of gold.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

A camel standing amidst a flock of sheep.

A crane standing amidst a flock of chickens.

A dish of carrot hastily cooked may still has soil uncleaned off the vegetable.

A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance.

A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

A flea on the top of a bald head.

A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu.

Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts.

How can you expect to find ivory in a dog's mouth?

How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load of firewood with only a cup of water?

If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.

If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.

If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils to knock at your door.

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.

It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.


Vicious as a tigeress can be, she never eats her own cubs.

Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.

When you are poor, neighbors close by will not come; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visits from (alleged) relatives afar.

With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.


You can't catch a cub without going into the tiger's den.


You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet.


You think you lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.


You won't help shoots grow by pulling them up higher.

Bas lepo. 

A moglo je da bude toga jos.

Eto, sutra bi mogao da nam nadjes indijske, pa africke, japanske, jevrejske, juznoamericke, pa onda reazlicitih evropskih naroda, ukljucujuci i nase.   

A mogao bi i ti, ja i onako radim ko magare a ti si i onako pokazao da si pokretna biblioteka.