BULGARIAN PROVERBS
A picturesque, music-loving and poetical people arc the. Bulgarians. That they are, however, inclined to be somewhat pessimistic, will be evident, from the following selection from One of the commonest Bulgarian proverbs. The life of a man is ft long dark night, is one of their favorable sayings, and amongst others might be mentioned — Only the nightingale can fully understand the rose. Before God you may say "I cannot," but not before men. Strangers, forgive, parents forget. • One's own pain is better than apther's happiness. When the cloth is woven, the loom goes to the garret. Better the child should weep than the molii.T of the child. Two happy days are seldom brothers. The lame man laughs at the man with no legs at all. Crooked "chimneys sc:ul the smoke, up straight. If a man is doomed to live the medicine to cure him will be found. The Greek will fall because he boasts; the Buigar because of his pigheadedliens.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 5 December 1914, Page 6
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162BULGARIAN PROVERBS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 5 December 1914, Page 6
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