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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 09:55
^ I thought it was the other way around - nevermind, you can't have too many of either in the long run. Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 09:59
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
Short visits makes long friends.


An Italian version of the above proverb: "L'ospite č come il pesce - dopo tre giorni puzza" (guests are like fish - on the third day they start stinkingLOL).


Interesting - for me that phrase was always attributed to Benjamin Franklin; it was published in his Almanack back in the mid 18th century.  I'm sure the phrase is much older than that then.  Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 10:03
He who laughs last, laughs loudest.  Or variation is He who laughs last, laughs best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 10:25
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

He who laughs last, laughs loudest.  Or variation is He who laughs last, laughs best.
 
The latter may be derived from the Dutch variant ("Wie het laatst lacht, lacht het best.").
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 10:26
Vuk dlaku mijenja, ali ćud nikada.
The wolf changes his hair, but never his character.
Besposlen pop i jariće krsti.
An idle priest will start baptizing goats.
Tiha voda brege dere.
Quiet water wears down mountains.
Bolje spriječiti nego liječiti.
Better to prevent than to cure.
Kad mačka ode, miševi kolo vode.
When cat is absent, mice are dancing.
Hvali more, drž' se kraja.
Respect the sea, stick to the shore.
Na ljutu ranu ljutu travu.
Nasty wound needs a nasty herb.
Počisti prvo pred svojim vratima.
First sweep the ground in front of your own door.
Puno baba, kilavo dijete.
Many midwives, child will be lazy.
Teško žabu u vodu natjerati.
It is not difficult to force the frog into the water.
Sit gladnom ne vjeruje.
The well fed one does not believe to the hungry one.
U svakoj šali pola istine.
In ever joke there's half a truth.
Bog je prvo sebi bradu stvorio.
God first created a beard for himself.

And my favourite one:

Put u pakao popločan je dobrim namjerama.
A road to hell is cobbled with good intentions.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 14:23
Red sky at night - shepherd's (sailor's) delight. Red sky in  morning - shepherd's warning.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 14:24
When the rooks nest high we're in for a fry, but when they nest low we're in for a blow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:37
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Vuk dlaku mijenja, ali ćud nikada.
The wolf changes his hair, but never his character.
Een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken.

 
Bolje spriječiti nego liječiti.
Better to prevent than to cure.
Voorkomen is beter dan genezen.

Kad mačka ode, miševi kolo vode.
When cat is absent, mice are dancing.
Als de kat van huis is, dansen de muizen.

Na ljutu ranu ljutu travu.
Nasty wound needs a nasty herb.
Zachte heelmeesters maken stinkende wonden. (Gentle healers create stinking wounds).

 
Počisti prvo pred svojim vratima.
First sweep the ground in front of your own door.
Verbeter de wereld, begin bij jezelf. (Better the world, start with yourself).

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Put u pakao popločan je dobrim namjerama.
A road to hell is cobbled with good intentions.
De weg naar de hel is geplaveid met goede voornemens.

 
Some Croatian proverbs have their Dutch equivalents. When the translation is (nearly) literal, I coloured them blue. For the red ones I added the translation in English.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 21:42
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

He who laughs last, laughs loudest.  Or variation is He who laughs last, laughs best.


Saw that once, although it went
"He who laughs last, thinks slowest"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 21:52
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

He who laughs last, laughs loudest.  Or variation is He who laughs last, laughs best.

another variation of it is "he who laughs last did not understand the joke"


Edited by BaldJean - June 22 2009 at 21:54


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 06:04
Here's a weird one that I don't think originated here: There's more than one way to skin a cat.  I guess it hearkens back to an era when we were eating cats? Tongue

Just checked, Mark Twain:
Mark Twain used your version in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court in 1889: “she was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way to skin a cat”, that is, more than one way to get what she wanted.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mor1.htm
Some writers have pointed to its use in the southern states of the US in reference to catfish, often abbreviated to cat, a fish that is indeed usually skinned in preparing it for eating. However, it looks very much from the multiple versions of the saying, their wide distribution and their age, that this is just a local application of the proverb.

Now if you want to go into a whole weird area, look up noodling...


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 23 2009 at 06:09
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 10:46
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

A rolling stone gathers no moss


But Keith Richards gets alcohol,drugs and money for his troubles.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2009 at 04:44
The early bird catches the worm - The second mouse gets the cheese.
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