PROVERBS

- Any port in a storm – в беде любой выход хорош
- The calm before the storm – затишье перед бурей
- New Lords, new laws – новая метла по-новому метет
- Pride comes before a fall – чем выше взлетишь, тем больнее падать
- To put the cart before the horse – не ставь телегу перед лошадью
- A tall order – трудная задача
- You can take the horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink – насильно мил не будешь
- Forewarned is forearmed – предупрежден - вооружен
- All the more so – тем более
- Just my luck – так уж мне везет
- Pluck up your courage – соберись с духом
- He who laughs last laughs longest – хорошо смеется тот, кто смеется последний
- One is nearer God’s heart in a garden – у Христа за пазухой
- Part & parcel – неотъемлимая часть
- As snug as a bug in a rug – хорошо устроился
- Grasp all, loose all – за двумя зайцами погонишься, ни одного не поймаешь
- He laughs best who laughs last – хорошо смеется тот, кто смеется последний
- Well begun is half done – тише едешь дальше будешь; хорошее начало половина дела
- Well done, soon done - молодец
- The highest art is artlessness – высшее искусство - безыскусность
- Every country has it customs – в каждой стране свои обычаи
- Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you – не тронь лихо пока лежит тихо
- A wonder lasts but nine days – все проходит
- What’s done cannot be undone – сделанного не воротишь
- winter’s thunder is summer’s wonder – зимняя гроза – летнее чудо
- adversity is a great headmaster – несчастье – лучший учитель
- baggars can’t be choosers – беднякам не приходится выбирать
- better an egg today than the hen tomorrow – лучше голубь в тарелке, чем глухарь на току; лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе
- better be along than in bad company – лучше быть одному, чем в плохой компании
- Christmas comes but ones a year – рождество приходит раз в году
- Take us as you find us – примите нас такими, какие мы есть
- As like as two peas – похожи как две капли
- He who fights & runs away may live to fight another day – тот, кто выжил будет жить
- If things were to be done twice, all would be wise – если бы все делалось дважды все были бы мудрецами
- No pains, no gains – нет счастья без страданий
- When the cat is away, the mice will play – когда кошки нет, мышке раздолье
- After dinner sit awhile after supper walk a mile – завтрак съешь сам, обедом поделись с другом, ужин отдай врагу
- Haste makes waste – поспешишь, людей насмешишь
- To make hay while the sun shines – коси сено пока солнце не село; куй железо пока горячо
- The blind leading the blind – слепой слепого ведет
- A sittich in time saves nine – стяжок во время стоит девяти
- An apple a day keeps a doctor away – яблоко в день и не надо докторов
- A cat has nine lives – у кошки девять жизней
- Out of sight, out of mind – с глаз долой из сердца вон
- Call a spade a spade – называй вещи своими именами
- Time is money – время – деньги
- Time and tide wait for no man – время не ждет
- Never put till tomorrow what you can do today – не откладывай на завтра то, что можно сделать сегодня
- Haste makes waste – поспешишь – людей насмешишь
About time – пора, подходит время
- Against time – в короткий срок
- All at once – сразу, одновременно
- Time flies – время летит
- Time hangs heavily on one’s hands – время тянется медленно
- Time is on smb’s side – время на чьей-либо стороне
- Time out of mind / From time immemorial – испокон веков, с незапамятных времен
- Time is out of number – бесчисленное количество раз
- Time will show who is right –
время покажет кто прав
- A cat in gloves catches no mice - Без труда не вытащишь и рыбку из пруда
- When the cat is away, the mice will play – за все браться – ничего не сделать
- He that would have eggs must endure the cracking of hens – любишь кататься, люби и саночки возить
- You can’t make an omlette without breaking eggs – не разбив яиц не сделаешь яичницу
- Work like horse – работать как вол, каторжный, трудиться до изнеможения
- Work one’s fingers to the bone – работать не покладая рук, не разгибая спины
- Work smth to death – перестараться
-When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
-When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
-Believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.
-Life is short but a smile takes barely a second.
-Listen to what they say of the others and you will know what they say about you.
-Nothing seems expensive on credit.
-Learn politeness from the impolite.
-A beautiful thing is never perfect.
-A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
-It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
-Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
-A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.
-Cheap meat never makes a good soup.
-No man can paddle two canoes at the same time.
-When an ant gets wings, it loses its head.
-Why would you use poison if you can kill with honey.
-Two things rule the world -- reward and punishment.
-A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
-Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
-The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere.
-Don't put gold buttons on a torn coat.
-No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool.
-A dog that barks all the time gets little attention.
- A wise man learns at the fool's expense.
-You can only take out of a bag what was already in it.
-If you let everyone walk over you, you become a carpet.
-The blind person never fears ghosts.
-He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.
-A chattering bird builds no nest.
-A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
-A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
-Wait until it is night before saying it has been a fine day.
-The witness of a rat is another rat.
-With enough "ifs" we could put Paris into a bottle.
-Too clever is stupid.
-God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
-He who has done evil, expects evil.
-Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king.
-The pencil of God has no eraser.
-When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
-The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
-When ambition ends, happiness begins.
-The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.
-Useless wisdom is doulbe foolishness.
-A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.
-Home is where the heart is.
-It is no use crying over spilt milk.
-Take the bull by the horns.
-The more you have, the more you want.
-When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
-You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
-Barking dogs seldom bite.
-Actions speak louder then words
-Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
-A little axe can cut down a big tree.
-Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
-Fall seven times, stand up eight.
-When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.
-Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
-Where there is sunshine, there is also shade.
-A person changing his clothing always hides while changing.
-Words have no wings but they can fly many thousands of miles.
-You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
-See with your mind, hear with your heart.
-Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
-Nothing dries sooner than tears.
-A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
-The road to a friend's house is never long.
-Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
-What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
- Away from the eye, away from the mind.
- Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
- People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.
- The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's.
- Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
- Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark.
- What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
- Every sin brings its punishment with it.