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| * "Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom." | * "Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom." | ||
| * "Kad grmi, svak se sebe boji. " (eng. When it thunders, everyone is afraid of themselves) | * "Kad grmi, svak se sebe boji. " (eng. When it thunders, everyone is afraid of themselves) | ||
| - | * | + | * Make hay when the sun shines |
| + | * When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year. | ||
| + | * No chicken will fall into a fire the second time | ||
| + | * Life like a fire begins in smoke and end in ashes | ||
| + | * It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire | ||
| + | * If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you | ||
| + | * If you have a head of wax you should not go near the fire | ||
| + | * Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor | ||
| + | * No year has two summers | ||
| + | * Better a small fire that warms than a big fire than burns you | ||
| + | * Summer will not last forever | ||
| + | * During the winter eat long fishes, during the summer eat short fishes. | ||
| + | * When the weather changes, the beast sneezes. | ||
| + | * When the cat hops around, bad weather is on the way. | ||
| + | * Furious storm passes quickly | ||
| + | * A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous. | ||
| + | * The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden | ||
| + | * Much science, much sorrow. (Ecclesiastes 1:18) | ||
| + | * Experience is the mother of science | ||
| + | * We are the authors of our own disasters | ||
| + | * The past is the future of the present | ||
| + | * He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. | ||
| + | * Whosoever chooses to deny their past can not expect to find a future. | ||
| + | * Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future. | ||
| + | * All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present | ||
| + | * Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting. | ||
| + | * The future struggles against being mastered. | ||
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