Category: ა – გ

Bend with the tree that will bend with you. They that are bound must obey. Run with the hare and hunt with the hound. If you can’t beat them join… Read more »

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar The silent sow gets all the swill (Am.). The stillest hog gets the most swill (Am.). The still pig gets all… Read more »

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar The silent sow gets all the swill (Am.). The stillest hog gets the most swill (Am.). The still pig gets all… Read more »

Better ask twice than go wrong once. Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once; Score twice before you cut once; Look before you leap; Discretion is… Read more »

Better ask twice than go wrong once. Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once; Score twice before you cut once; Look before you leap; Discretion is… Read more »

The poor always pay. The poor man pays for all. Riche vilain vaut mieux que pauvre gentilhomme. Богатого и в чуже знают, убогий и в своих невидим. Богатый, как хочет,… Read more »

At open doors dogs come in (Am., Br.). A bad padlock invites a picklock (Am., Br.). The hole calls (invites) the thief (Am.). An open door may tempt a saint… Read more »

Good can never grow out of bad (evil) (Br.). Never do evil hoping that good will come of it (Am.). Of evil grain no good seed can come (Am., Br.)… Read more »

Translation: An evil person is evil even at Easter. Evil begets evil. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. Give a dog an ill name and hang him…. Read more »

The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children. Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache (Am.). Les enfants sont punis pour les péchés des pères Tu… Read more »

Near dead never filled the kirk-yard No man is dead till he’s dead. to yield /to give up to the illness(desease) Meet the disease as it approaches. Health is not… Read more »

There is a remedy for all dolours (things) but death. Every sore has its salve (Am.). There’s a salve for every sore (Am.,) Chaque plaie a son baume. Il y… Read more »

He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. Do no good and you shall find no evil Sleep without supping, and wake without owing. D’un sac à charbon ne peut… Read more »

Better ask twice than go wrong once. Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once; Score twice before you cut once; Look before you leap; Discretion is… Read more »

Better ask twice than go wrong once. Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once; Score twice before you cut once; Look before you leap; Discretion is… Read more »

The bitter bread of dependence is hard to chew (Am.). Bitter is the bread of charity (Am.). Bound is he that gifts taketh (Br.). Чужойхлебротдерет. Чужой мёд горек. Дадутломоть, дазаставятнеделюмолоть…. Read more »

The poor always pay. The poor man pays fro all. Богатого и в чуже знают, убогий и в своих невидим. Богатый, как хочет, а бедный, как может. Богатый бедного не… Read more »

At open doors dogs come in (Am., Br.). A bad padlock invites a picklock (Am., Br.). The hole calls (invites) the thief (Am.). An open door may tempt a saint… Read more »

Good can never grow out of bad (evil) (Br.). Never do evil hoping that good will come of it (Am.). Of evil grain no good seed can come (Am., Br.)… Read more »