142 Sayings of Czech Origin

1. "What's at home, counts." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "You are so many times a human how many languages you know." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "After a battle, everyone is a general." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "The big thieves hang the little ones." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "He who digs a hole for someone, will fall in it himself." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "No church without a sermon." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Don't go to the pub without money." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Everywhere is well, at home it's best." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "God's mills mill slowly, but surely." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "It is usually dark below the candlestick." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "Beer makes beautiful bodies." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "A lie has short legs." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "In a healthy body, a healthy spirit." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Better late than never." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "There is no wise response to a foolish remark." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Choose your woman with a velvet glove, but control her with a fist of iron." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "Against the beastly human being even the gods are powerless." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "He who gives is foolish, he who doesn't accept is even more so." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Speaking is silver, silence is gold." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "You will get furthest with honesty." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "If a guest comes to your home, grab a stick." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Wars are caused by women and priests." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "Joyfulness is half your health." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "You will use in the old what you have learned young." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Don't be a lion in your own house." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "Gentlemen don't want to give much and are ashamed to give little." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "There are no cakes without work." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "He who doesn't know the church worships the stove." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "There's a bit of truth in every gossip." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "He who laughs last laughs best." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "When in need, you shall know a friend." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Don't extinguish something that does not burn you." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Anger is a bad advisor." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "As one sows, so shall he reap." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Consider each day of your life to be the best." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "Many a friend has been lost by a jest, but none has ever been got by one." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "The way one eats is the way one works." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "Extol the virtue of water, but drink wine." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "Forbidden fruit tastes best." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "The fool never undertakes little." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "When the cat is not home, the mice have a party." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "The law has a nose of wax." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Guest and fish stinks at third day." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "He who waits shall live to see." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "Only in water can you learn to swim." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "Hunger is the best cook." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "All that glitters is not gold." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Hope is a great breakfast but a poor dinner." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Avoid a drunkard as well as a fool." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "If a woman doesn't know what she has to answer then the sea is dry." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "Better to have a handful of might than a sack of justice." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "If you wake up in the morning and feel no pain it is to be feared that you died in the night." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "When we are at our happiest, then it is best to leave and go home." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "Water is cheaper than medicine." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "The world at large doesn't lead to hell nor does the monastery lead to heaven." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "Do not blow in the bear's ear." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "If the goat had a longer tail he could wipe the stars clean." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "Our parents taught us to speak and the world taught us to be silent." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "Nothing seems expensive on credit." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "There's no smoke without fire." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "He who comes sooner shall grind sooner." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "A hundred times nothing killed the donkey." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "Doubts mean losing half of one's case beforehand." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "A crow sits next to a crow." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "A crow will not peck out a crow's eyes." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "An early bird will hop farther." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "A dog that barks doesn't bite." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "Don't jump high in a room with a low ceiling." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "There is no point in showing the way to an old hare." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "You walk so long with a jar for water, until the handle breaks off." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "Every cat is black at night." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "Long tongue, short hands." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "The person who God shows a treasure to must dig it out himself." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "The morning is wiser than the evening." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "A good neighbor increases the value of your property." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "Morning rain and women's tears dry as fast as each other." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "He who looks only at heaven may easily break his nose on earth." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "Warm food, warm friendships." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "A custom wears a shirt of iron." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "Cleanliness is half your health." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "As one makes his bed, that way he shall lie down." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "He who is not lazy shall get much green." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "A word spoken is past recalling." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "Politeness pleases even a cat." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "Better a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "All roads lead to Rome." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "As long as a language lives, the people will not perish." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "He who has not been given brains from above will not buy them at the apothecary." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "If you want to hear the truth about yourself, offend your neighbor." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "There can be no judge without an accused." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "The first sin makes the bed for the second." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "A guest in your home is like a God in your home." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "All rivers do their best for the sea." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "Measure twice, cut once." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "Still waters wash out banks." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "Pride will have a fall." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "The blacksmith's horse has no horseshoes." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "Custom and law are sisters." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "If you do good to the Devil, out of gratitude he will deliver you to hell." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "No man has fallen from the sky learned." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "The moon does not care if the dog barks at it." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "Even in hell it is good to have friends." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "If you buy things you don't need, you are stealing from yourself." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "What is soon ripe is soon rotten." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

116. "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

117. "A sweaty foot seldom comes alone." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

118. "He who is curious shall grow old soon." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

119. "Wait for a month before you praise a horse, and for a year before you praise a woman." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

120. "What is called into a forest is the same what is echoed from the forest." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

121. "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

122. "The Germans in the stable, the Czech in the kitchen and the French in bed." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

123. "Good memories last long, bad ones last longer." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

124. "It is better not to begin than, having begun, leave unfinished." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

125. "Love is partner of blindness." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

126. "He who covets the belongings of someone else loses his own." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

127. "Even in the tiniest little chapel there are some prayers said once a year." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

128. "The God who gave us teeth will also give us bread." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

129. "Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

130. "A lazy mouth is a sheer disaster." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

131. "He who asks too much will learn too much." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

132. "An apple does not fall far from the tree." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

133. "Even small fish are fish." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

134. "The wedding lasts for two or three days, but the trouble stays longer." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

135. "Early bird hops further." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

136. "He who looks, finds." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

137. "Patience brings roses." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

138. "Do not buy with your ears but with your eyes." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

139. "Repetition is the mother of wisdom." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

140. "I am a gentleman and you are a gentleman; who, then, should look after the pigs?" (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

141. "Good advice is better than gold." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet

 

142. "There were once three brothers, a lie, theft and the gallows." (Czech Sayings) Click to tweet