Czech proverbs

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.

Even in the tiniest little chapel there are some prayers said once a year.

Choose your woman with a velvet glove, but control her with a fist of iron.

The Lord will drench you with His showers, but he will dry you with His sun.

Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.

The world at large doesn't lead to hell nor does the monastery lead to heaven.

I am a gentleman and you are a gentleman; who, then, should look after the pigs?

He who has not been given brains from above will not buy them at the apothecary.

Wait for a month before you praise a horse, and for a year before you praise a woman.

If you wake up in the morning and feel no pain it is to be feared that you died in the night.

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