Bulgarian proverbs:

• Hunger sees nothing but bread.
• In every village is the grave of Christ.
• The clean gets dirty more easily.
• The devil knows everything except where women sharpen their knives.
• Forests have eyes, meadows ears.
• God’s feet are of wool; his hands are of iron.
• One guest hates the other, and the host both.
• Do not lie for lack of news.
• The oversaintly saint is not pleasing even unto God.
• Man is ever self-forgiving.
• God does not shave — why should I?
• A long dark night — the year.
• Do not salt other people’s food.
• Become a sheep and you will see the wolf.
• The smaller saints will be the ruin of God.
• Where there is union a bullet can swim.
• The wife carries her husband on her face; the husband carries his wife on his linen.
• When a wool merchant speaks of sheep he means cloth.

And “God is not sinless. He created the world.”