• You are as many a person as many  languages you know.   American
• A happy heart is better than a full purse.                                   Italian
• Beware of a silent dog and still water.                                         German
• A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.                           Spanish
• Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.    Bulgarian
• Don't put gold buttons on a torn coat.                                           Albanian
• If my shoe is tight, who cares if the world is vast?                   Turkish
• He who is near the church is often far from God.                     French
• Two's company, three's a crowd.                                                     English
• He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.    German 
• Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool.                    Irish
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.                                  French
• Noble and common blood is of the same colour.                     German
• Never whisper to the deaf or wink at the blind.                       Slovenian
• Those who are thirsty drink in silence.                                       Greek
• The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.                                  Irish
• God does not hear you if you do not speak.                              Mexican
• Rats desert a sinking ship.                                                                 French
• Better a red face than a black heart.                                            Portuguese   
• Trouble rides a fast horse.                                                               Italian
• All good things come to those who wait.                                    English
• Better a hundred enemies outside the house than one inside.          Arabic
• If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet.     Italian   

         purse             -           кошелёк

         to beware    -           остерегаться

         fragrance    -           аромат

         patience     -            терпение

         torn             -            рваный

         tight            -            тесный  

        vast             -              огромный

        noble          -               благородный

        common    -             простой   

        deaf             -              глухой

       to wink        -             подмигивать

       blind             -             слепой

       fiddle           -              скрипка

       wing             -              крыло

       to desert     -             покидать

      sinking        -              тонущий