EN
The most comprehensive collections of Czech sayings and proverbs of the 20th -beginning 21st century are analyzed including works by V. Fleischganse, J. Zaoralek, J. Spilka, D. Bittnerova and F. Shindler. Main sources of Czech paremiology are researched basing on interlingual parallels, grammar structure and semantics of paremies that constitute two cultural worlds: East-Byzantium and Latin-German. The importance of these collections for Slavic science is defined.