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USA

• A great city, a great solitude

• A penny saved is a penny earned

• A stitch in time saves nine

• Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder

• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

• Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise

• Endeavor to so live that when you die even the undertaker will be sorry

• Endeavor to so live that when you die you won't be afraid to leave the family parrot to the town gossip

• Even a cat can look at a king.

• Even pine trees fear axes

• It is better to break your heart than to do nothing with it

• Love gives life within
  

• One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

• Out of the mouths of babes

• Silence is golden

• Some people are wolves in sheep’s clothing

• Spare the rod, spoil the child

• Speaks out of both sides of their mouth

• The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

• The bigger they are the harder they fall

• The early bird catches the worm

• Where there is smoke, there is fire

• You have to stop and smell the roses

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Ukraine

В гостях хорошо - а дома лучше
East or West Home the best

Устами младенца глаголит истина
A child and a fool will always tell the truth

Дыма без огня не бывает
Where there is smoke, there is fire

Яблоко от яблони недалеко падает
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Волк в овечьей шкуре
Some people are wolves in sheep’s clothing

Молчание - золото
Silence is golden

Дареному коню в зубы не смотрят
Do not check the teeth of gift horses!

Кто рано встает - тому Бог дает
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise


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UK

• A stitch in time saves nine.

• As bright as a button.
  

• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

• When a fool sits among wise men : he himself will become a wise man. When a wise man sits among fools : he himself will become a fool

• where there's muck there's brass

• As wise as an owl

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Thailand

• สิบเบี้ยใกล้มือ
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

• ความไม่มีโรคเป็นลาภอันประเสริฐ
• Health is better than wealth.

• เข้าเมืองตาหลิ่ว ต้องหลิ่วตาตาม
• When in Rome do as the Romans do.

• ไก่งามเพราะขน คนงามเพราะแต่ง
• Fine feathers make fine birds. The tailor makes the man.

• กันไว้ดีกว่าแก้
• Prevention is better

• ชาติเสือต้องไว้ลาย
• A leopard cannot change his spots.

• เพื่อนกินหาง่ายเพื่อนตายหายาก
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.

• เมื่อฝนผ่านไปท้องฟ้าก็ปลอดโปร่ง
• After a storm comes a calm.

• ชีวิตสั้น ศิลปะยืนยาว
• Art is long,life is short.

• นกน้อยทำรังแต่พอตัว
• Cut your coat according go your cloth.

• เป็นหัวของสุนัขดีกว่าหางสิงโต
• Better be te head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

• ชีวิตสั้น ศิลปะยืนยาว
• Art is long,life is short.

• ความพยายามอยู่ที่ไหน ความสำเร็จอยู่ที่นั่น
  
• Where there's a will, there's a way.

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Sweden

• To speak is silver, to be quite is gold

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Singapore

• He who can take no interest in what is small, will take false interest in what is great.

• To speak is silver, to listen is gold.

• One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

• The journey is the reward.

• Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder

• Time and tide waits no man

• No man is an island

• Make hay while the sun shines

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