Category: ანბანური საძიებელი

Idleness rusts the mind. Standing pools gather filth (Am., Br.). A standing pool soon stagnates (Am.). Still water breeds vermin (Br.) If you rest, you rust (Am.). Inactivity breeds ignorance… Read more »

The leopard does not change his  spots. Can the Ethiopian change his colour (his skin)? (Br.). Can the leopard change his spots? What is bred in the bone will not… Read more »

A creaking door hangs long on his hinges. All that shakes falls not (Br.). Near dead never filled the kirkyard (Am.) Pot fêlé dure longtemps. Собака от хромоты не подохнет… Read more »

Speak of the devil (Am., Br.). Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear (Br.). Speak of the devil and he’ll appear (Am., Br.). Speak of the devil… Read more »

A stick is soon found to beat a dog with. Speak of the devil (Am., Br.). Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear (Br.). Speak of the… Read more »

You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. A man can be led but he can’t be driven (Am.). One man can lead a… Read more »

The dog bites the stone, not him who throws it. Burn not your house to frighten (to rid of) the mouse (Br.). Burn not your house to frighten the mouse… Read more »

The dog bites the stone, not him who throws it. Burn not your house to frighten (to rid of) the mouse (Br.). Burn not your house to frighten the mouse… Read more »

Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache (Am.). The sins of fathers are visited on their children (Am., Br.) Traduction : Une mauvaise conscience est un auto-accusateur. une âme… Read more »

A guilty conscience is a self-accuser. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Every man has his besetting sin (Am.). Не is dead (lifeless) that is faultless (Am.)…. Read more »

Every little makes a mickle. Drop by drop and the pitcher is full. Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make a (the) mighty ocean and a (the) pleasant… Read more »

Every little makes a mickle. Drop by drop and the pitcher is full. Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make a (the) mighty ocean and a (the) pleasant… Read more »

Beggars must (should) be no choosers. Hunger is the best sauce. Hunger never saw bad bread (Am,). Hunger sweetens what is bitter (Am.). A hungry horse makes a clean manger… Read more »

A man thinks his own geese swans. All one’s geese are swans (Am., Br.). The crow thinks her own bird fairest (Br.). The crow thinks her own bird the fairest… Read more »

A man cannot give what he has not got. There is nothing like leather. It is very hard to shave an egg (Am., Br.). No man can flay a stone… Read more »

He who says what he likes, shall bear what he doesn’t like. From hearing comes wisdom (Br.). Не is a wise man (wise) who speaks little (Am.). Не knows most… Read more »