Hunger is a bigger master than the king.
More Bulgarian Proverbs:
Gravediggers have their own gravediggers too.Bulgarian
Bad weather gets better, a bad man never does.
Bulgarian
You will sell more sheepskins at the market than wolfskins.
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The crow pecks at the ox to clean it -- not to feed from it.
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He, who gives much, will soon start begging.
Bulgarian
A Joke may have children born.
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