Without toil there is no learning.
- Croatian ProverbCP
Croatian Proverb
Proverbs have no individual author. They passed orally through generations and were only written down from the nineteenth century onward, when collectors of folk literature began systematically recording what until then had been carried in memory. The sayings gathered here come from Croatian oral tradition and often exist in several variants depending on the region.
The early riser grabs two fortunes.
- Croatian ProverbBake it first, then speak — think before you talk.
- Croatian ProverbHe who waits will be rewarded.
- Croatian ProverbLies have short legs.
- Croatian ProverbGrain by grain a loaf, stone by stone a palace.
- Croatian ProverbA person learns as long as they live.
- Croatian ProverbA friend is known in times of trouble.
- Croatian ProverbBetter to prevent than to cure.
- Croatian ProverbWhere there is a will, there is a way.
- Croatian ProverbPatient and saved.
- Croatian ProverbHope dies last.
- Croatian ProverbBetter a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on the branch.
- Croatian ProverbWithout tools there is no craft.
- Croatian ProverbHe who flies high falls low.
- Croatian Proverb