81 Sayings of Bulgarian Origin

1. "Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "One does not get crucified, one crucifies oneself." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Hasty work, shame for the craftsman." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "If you go to sleep with the blind, you'll wake up squinting." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Grapes do not grow in a willow tree." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "A fortress surrenders from within." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Aid yourself and the lord will come." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "A crow will never be a dove." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Ravens do not peck each other's eyes out." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "When the sea turned into honey, the poor lost his spoon." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "The droplet is always at its largest just before it drops." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "If you light one candle for God, then you must light two for the devil." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "A song belongs to no one." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Why should I shave when God doesn't?" (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "If you cannot serve, you cannot rule." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "The fox falls into the trap only once." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "If you can't be good, then be careful." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "New day, new destiny." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "A tree falls the way it leans." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "He who pulls out a knife, by knife shall die." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "Every frog has his own pond." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "The hasty bitch gives birth to blind puppies." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "One swallow doesn't make a spring." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "A good cock can never have too many hens." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "If you call one wolf, you invite the pack." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "Whip the saddle and give the mule something to think about it." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "From walking, something, from sitting, nothing." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Two happy days are seldom brothers." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "God gives but does not lock the gate." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "One gentle word opens a gate of iron." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "If you would live long, open your heart." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Too many midwives deliver a sickly baby." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Pretty wife, old wine, many friends." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "You will sell more sheepskins at the market than wolfskins." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Only other people's eggs are double-yolked." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "The wolf has a thick neck, because he does his job on his own." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "The neighbor's chicken is a duck." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "The earth is man's only friend." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "If you don't help yourself, even God cannot help you." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "A gentle word opens an iron gate." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Man proposes, God disposes." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "An axe without a shaft is no threat to the forest." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "If you want apples, you have to shake the trees." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "It is good fishing in water stream." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "Many hands make light work." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "There is no smoke without fire." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "No hero without a wound." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "Let the man who has suffered ask it, not the man who has travelled." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "He who has been at the mill has flour on his hat." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "God is not without sins, He created the world." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "The village feeds the town." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "The crow pecks at the ox to clean it, not to feed from it." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Drop by drop, a whole lake becomes." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "From the promise to the deed is a day's journey." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "God does not pay every Saturday." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "He who believes in dreams feeds on wind." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "If you have no enemies think then that your own mother might have produced one." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "A house without a woman is like a fire without a bucket." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "When a Bulgar gets rich he builds himself another house." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "If you want to drown yourself, don't torture yourself with shallow water." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "Still waters run deep." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "If you let everyone walk over you, then you become a carpet." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "Lies legs are short." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "A friend in need is a friend in deed." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "Take a big bite, don't say a big word." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "Thirsty men make good prophets." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "If you want to annoy the devil stay silent." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "The wolf changes only his coat, not his character." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "You can't make something beautiful with force." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "A lion lurks in everyone's heart; awake him not." (Bulgarian Sayings) Click to tweet