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** ''Translation: An idle priest will start baptizing goats. (If someone is without real and important tasks, he will undertake unimportant or senseless activities.)''

** English equivalent: The Devil finds work for idle hands

** ''Translation: Without suffering, there is no learning. (You need to put some effort in order to acquire some knowledge.)''

** ''English equivalent: '''No pain, no gain.'''''

** ''Translation: The battle isn’t won by golden arms but by hero’s heart. (Our success does not depend so much on resources we have, as on knowledge, skills, decisiveness and effort we put in accomplishment.''

 

** ''Translation: Better the grave than (to be) a slave. (The slogan created during resistance against fascism. It is believed that some subservience is so unbearable that it is better to die.)''

 

** ''English equivalent: Better late than never.''

 

** ''Translation: Better war than pact. (The slogan created during resistance against fascism. It is believed that some forces are so evil that it is better go in war against them than to cooperate with them.)''

 

** ''English equivalent: Better safe than sorry.''

 

** ''Translation: Better (to have) a sparrow in the hand then a pigeon on the branch.''

** ''English equivalent: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.''

==D==

 

** ''Translation: Far away from eyes, far away from heart.''

** ''English equivalent: Out of eyesight, out of mind.''

==K==

 

 

* '''Kad čeljad nije bijesna, ni kuća nije tijesna.'''

** ''Translation: When children are not furious, the house isn’t too small either.''

 

** ''Translation: When cat is absent, mice dance.''

** ''English equivalent: When the cat's away the mice will play.''

** ''Latin equivalent: Lupus in fabula.''

 

** ''Translation: To circle like a cat around a hot porridge.''

** ''English equivalent: Beating around bush.''

** ''English equivalent: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.''

 

** ''Translation: The dog doesn’t bark because of the village.''

 

** ''Translation: Do not paint the devil on the wall.''

 

** ''Translation: there is no bread without shovel.''

 

** ''Translation: A disaster never comes alone.''

** ''English equivalent: It never rains but it pours.''

** ''Translation: Do not ask for bread if you have tortilla.''

 

** ''English equivalent: Not all that glitters is gold.''

 

** ''Latin equivalent: De mortuis nil nisi bonum.''

 

** ''Translation: Clothes do not make a man.''

** ''English equivalent: You can't tell a book by its cover.''

** ''Translation: Paper can withstand anything.''

 

** ''Translation: Barking dogs don't bite.''

** ''English equivalent: His bark is worse than his bite.''

** ''Translation: First help yourself and then even the God will help you.''

 

** ''Translation: Help the poor one for your own shame.''

 

** ''Translation: With such friends, one doesn't need enemies anymore.''

** ''English equivalent: With friends like these, who needs enemies?''

** ''English equivalent: All things come to he who waits.''

 

 

* '''Strpljen – spašen.'''

** ''Translation: The one who digs the hole under someone else will fall in it himself.''

 

** ''Translation: The first one gets the girl.''

** ''English equivalent: First come, first served.''

 

** ''Translation: The one who wakes up early, catches two fortunes.''

** ''English equivalent: The early bird catches the worm.''

** ''English equivalent: A lie has no legs.''

 

** ''Translation: In trouble a friend is recognized.''

** ''English equivalent: A friend in need is a friend indeed.''

 

** ''Translation: The shoemakers wife wears shoes with holes.''

 

** ''Translation: In fear the eyes are big.''

 

** ''Translation: Trust yourself and your horse.''

 

 

==V==

 

** ''English equivalent: Time is money.''