proVERBS

Translation:
Half done which is well begun

Equivalent:
Well begun is half done

Translation:
To a miserly father a prodigal son

Equivalent:
After a thrifty father, a prodigal son

Translation:
Old friend and old wine are good in all places

Equivalent:
Old friends and old wine are best

Translation:
After a big feast, a little loaf

Equivalent:
Stuff today and starve tomorrow

Translation:
That which one learns in the cradle lasts until the tomb

Equivalent:
Whoso learneth young forgets not when he is old

Translation:
That which cures one person kills another

Equivalent:
One man's meat is another man's poison

Translation:
Every haberdasher praises his needles and his basket

Equivalent:
Every pedlar praises his needles

notes:
Pedlars used to carry smal lbut valuable things for sale in a pack on their back

Translation:
The coalman is master at home

Equivalent:
A man's house is his castle

Translation:
Over one bone two dogs just do not get on

Equivalent:
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree

Translation:
God limits the wind to the shorn ewe

Equivalent:
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb

Translation:
To say and to do are two

Equivalent:
Saying is one thing, and doing another

Translation:
Smoke, rain and a senseless woman drive a man from his house

Equivalent:
Three things drive a man out of his house - smoke, rain, and a scolding wife

Translation:
One needs to cut out the dress according to the cloth

Equivalent:
Cut your coat according to your cloth

Translation:
One needs to work in one's youth in order to rest in one's old age

Equivalent:
For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts whole day

Translation:
One should not speak ill of the dead

Equivalent:
Say nothing of the dead but what is good

Translation:
A gloved cat never catches mice

Equivalent:
A cat in gloves catches no mice

Translation:
Absence is the enemy of love

Equivalent:
Salt water and absence wash away love

Translation:
Hell is paved with good intentions

Equivalent:
Hell is paved with good intentions

Translation:
The monkey is always a monkey, even if disguised as a a prince

Equivalent:
An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

Translation:
Time is the best doctor

Equivalent:
Time is the best healer

Translation:
The absent are always wrong

Equivalent:
The absent are always in the wrong

Translation:
Bad news has wings

Equivalent:
Bad news has wings

Translation:
The races of the small and the big will be the same in a thousand ears

Equivalent:
It will be all one a hundred years hence

Translation:
Those who hang on win the battle

Equivalent:
Perseverance overcomes all things

Translation:
A good name is better than great riches

Equivalent:
A good name is better than riches

Translation:
An egg in peace is worth more than an ox in war

Equivalent:
Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

Translation:
Late is worth more than never

Equivalent:
Better late than never

Translation:
To swim between two waters

Equivalent:
To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

Translation:
Animals are taken by the horns and men by the words

Equivalent:
An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue

Translation:
When wine goes in, good sense goes out

Equivalent:
When wine is in, wit is out

Translation:
When one does not have a good head one needs to have good legs

Equivalent:
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet

Translation:
Four eyes see better than two

Equivalent:
Four eyes see more than two

Translation:
He who says everything he wants will hear that which does not please him

Equivalent:
He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

Translation:
He who lends to a friend often makes of that an enemy

Equivalent:
Lend your money and lose your friend

Translation:
The pitcher goes to the water so often that it ends up broken

Equivalent:
The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last

Translation:
He who laughs in the morning will weep in the evening

Equivalent:
Laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper

Translation:
To fall from the frying pan into the embers

Equivalent:
Out of the frying-pan into the fire

Translation:
To kill the chicken with golden eggs

Equivalent:
To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

Translation:
A drowned man

Equivalent:
A drowning man will catch at a straw