Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle. Yugoslavian Proverb

 What is Yugoslavia known as today?

Today, the lands that were formerly Yugoslavia are divided into seven new countries. These countries, and their year of establishment are: Croatia (1991), Slovenia (1991), Macedonia (1991), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), Montenegro (2006), Serbia (2006), and Kosovo (2008).

• A good rest is half the job.
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• Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag.
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• If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
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• Where there is no wife, there is no home.
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• If you spit against the wind, you spit in your own face.
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• Where there are no laws, they can't be broken.
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• If ever you should need my life, come and take it.
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• When the big bells ring, the little bells are not heard.
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• If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood.
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• What is impossible to change is best to forget.
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• I am scratching myself where I am itching.
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• There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits.
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• He who works has much; he who saves, still more.
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• The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door.
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• He who is late may gnaw the bones.
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• One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains.
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• He who humbles himself too much gets trampled upon.
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• A good rest is half the work.
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• On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else's racehorse.
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• He who does not know how to serve cannot know how to command.
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• Everyone will sit on a little donkey.
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• No one likes to be the first to step on the ice.
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• He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot.
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• Hours once lost cannot be regained.
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• Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.
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• Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle.
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• Patience can break through iron doors.
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• Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance.
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• Don't go selling the hide while the bear remains in the hole.
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• Tell the truth and run!
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• Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.
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• Condemn a man within earshot; praise him at a distance.
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• Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
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• Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps.
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• Boast to a stranger, complain only to your friends.
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• The eyes see everything but themselves.
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• It is not easy to meet Good, but it is easy to recognize it.
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• A man shows in his youth what he will be in his age.
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• Wine from a pot is better than water from a well.
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• It is better to look from the mountain than from the dungeon.
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• A good name reaches far but a bad one reaches farther.
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