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- 750 Magyar Közmondás - 750 Hungarian Proverbs - Plain text of the book by Paczolay Gyula, presenting Hungarian proverbs with their English translations.
www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/human/szepirod/nepkolt/kozmdeng.hun
- About.com: Spanish Proverbs - Refranes - Weekly proverb in Spanish with explanation, sound file, and equivalent in English.
spanishculture.about.com/library/proverbs/blproverbs.htm
- Best of Sicily - Sicilian Proverbs - Small collection of Sicilian proverbs in English translation.
www.bestofsicily.com/proverbs.htm
- Bulgarian Proverbs - Funny proverbs and expressions in Bulgarian with English translations.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3476/pogovorki.htm
- Cracow's Yiddish Page - Yiddish proverbs with Polish and English translations, and presentation of the book "Yiddish and Polish Proverbs", by Magdalena Sitarz, Jagiellonian University.
www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~ufsitarz/unyidd.htm
- Dictionary of Proverbs and Sayings - Presentation of the English/Spanish "Dictionary of Proverbs and Sayings" with sample pages.
www.proverbios.com
- English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs - Features more than 1400 English proverbs and their Romanian equivalents.
www.deproverbio.com/DPbooks/EROM/dictionary.html
- European Proverbs - Article by Gyula Paczolay, University of Veszprém, discussing possible sources of 106 proverbs common to many European languages.
www.vein.hu/library/ve/proverbs/european.htm
- Famous Sicilian Proverbs & Expressions - Small collection in Sicilian, with English literal translation and idiom.
www.sicilianculture.com/dialect/proverbs.htm
- Finnish Proverbs and Poems - Small collection of Finnish proverbs, with a poem by Tommy Tabermann (in Finnish and English).
jdmoncada.tripod.com/finn/runot.html
- French Proverbs from 1611 - Categorized list of some 1500 French proverbs with English translations from Randle Cotgraves' 1611 "A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues."
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/proverbs
- Gaurko esaera zaharra - Today's Basque Proverb - In Basque with English translation and explanation.
home.earthlink.net/~jonaske/bqlang/bqproverbs.txt
- Greek Proverbs - Book presentation with three sample pages of ancient Greek proverbs and phrases.
www.appletree.ie/projects/grkprov/grkprov.htm
- Greek Spider: Greek Proverbs - Fifteen Greek proverbs with explanations (in English).
www.greekspider.com/greek_sayings
- Hungarian Proverbs - Large number of proverbs and sayings, organized by category (in Hungarian with English translation).
www.netstorm.net/~jason/magyar.htm
- Hungarian Proverbs and Sayings - Small number of proverbs related to the history and the cultural past of Hungary (in English).
www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/1998/proverbs.htm
- Italian Proverbs - Push the button for Italian proverbs with English translation and equivalent.
www.montepescali.com/proverbs-button.html
- János Baranyai Decsi and his Adagia - Article by Gyula Paczolay, University of Veszprém, on the first Hungarian proverb collection (1598).
www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/tarsad/nyelvtud/adagia/adagia.htm
- Portuguese Idioms Literally Translated - Compiled, translated, and explained in English by Tágide Crista.
www.tagide.com/pt-idioms.html
- Proverbs and Sayings - Bulgarian proverbs in English literal translation.
www.omda.bg/engl/ethnography/pogovorki.html
- Proverbs du jour - Thirty five Dutch proverbs and their English translation.
home1.gte.net/bruggink/sayings.html
- Qwiel Maltin: Maltese Proverbs - Proverbs in Maltese with English translation.
www.aboutmalta.com/grazio/qwiel2.html
- Russian Proverbs - Small collection compiled by William H. Timmins (in English).
wtimmins.tripod.com/lore/russianproverbs.html
- Russian Proverbs and Sayings - Compiled by Alexey Shileyko, in Russian with English translation and explanation.
www.orc.ru/~shileiko/proverbs.htm
- Russian Proverbs and Sayings - Supplied from "A Book of English and Russian Proverbs and Sayings" by M. Dubrovin (in English, with explanations).
www.friends-partners.org/friends/culture/literature/russian-proverbs.html
- Sicilan Proverbs - More than a 1000 Sicilian proverbs with English translations, extracted from Guiseppe Pitrè's collection.
dieli.net/SicilyPage/Proverbs/proverbs.html
- Sicilian Proverbs & Expressions - Proverbs in Sicilian with literal and idiomatic English translation.
www.arduini.net/proverbs.htm
- Sicilian Proverbs and Expressions - In Sicilian and English.
home.sprintmail.com/~mfalcon/Sicprov.htm
- Spanish Pronto! - Dichos, Refranes, Sayings, Proverbs - Spanish sayings with English translation and explanation.
members.aol.com/spanishpronto/spanishsayings.html
- Swedish Proverbs - A dozen Swedish proverbs (in English).
www.digitalfrost.com/jess/swedish.html
- The Collection of Morbid Russian Proverbs - Small collection of Russian proverbs about death (in English).
scribers.midwest.net/mgarrett/proverbs.html
- Wisdom Celebration Project - Romanian Proverbs with English Version - Selected by students from School 10 Focsani, Romania; organised alphabetically.
www.estcomp.ro/~sc10/wisdom/alfab.html
- Words to Live By - Italian proverbs and sayings, mainly in English.
www.giglia.org/proverbs.htm
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