Bulgarian Proverbs.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1220, 5 June 1919, Page 2

Bulgarian Proverbs.

A picturesque music-loving and poetical people are tbe Bulgarians. That they are, however, inclined tc be somewhat pessimistic will be evident from the following selection from some of the commonest Bulgarian proverbs. The life of a man is a long dark night, is one of their favourite sayings, and among others might be mentioned : Only tbe nightingale can understand tbe rose. Before God you may say, "I cannot." bnt not before men. Strangers forgive, parents for;.r'.. One's own pain is better than other's happiness. When the cloth is vroven the Imm goes to tbe j?;«rrof. Better the child should weep than the mother of the child. Two happy days arc seldom brothers. Tbe lame man laus!i3 at the man with no leg# at all. Crooked chimneys send the smoke up straight. If a man iB doomed to live the medicine to cure bim *-v:!l be found. The Grerk w ill fall because he boasts : tbe Bulgar because of his pigbeadedncss. Splendid colour, isn't it ?" asked tbe fishmriiurT. cutting »>;irsi a salmon. "Vrs," repbrd tlir purchaser; "it |fio';s as it it, ~ vcr'» bl"«hing a' *be price yosi ask for it "