As They Say In Zanzibar. David Crystal
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Название: As They Say In Zanzibar
Автор: David Crystal
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780007588275
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3 Let the guests at table be three or four – at the most five GREECE
4 Three glasses of wine drive away the evil spirits, but with the fourth they return GERMANY
5 A fifth wheel in the wagon hinders more than helps FRANCE
6 The one who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; the one who does not ask a question is a fool forever CHINA
7 If you want to be acquainted with the past and the present, you must read five cartloads of books CHINA
8 It is better to follow no saint than six INDIA
9 Poverty is the sixth sense GERMANY
10 Seven days is the length of a guest’s life MYANMAR
11 Turn your tongue seven times before speaking FRANCE
12 For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows GERMANY
13 Fall down seven times, get up eight JAPAN
14 A stitch in time saves nine ENGLAND
15 If bravery is ten, nine is strategy TURKEY
16 A smile will gain you ten more years of life CHINA
17 Those who have to go ten miles must regard nine as only halfway GERMANY
18 Among the ten fingers there are long and short CHINA
19 Truth is greater than ten goats NIGERIA
20 If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want a hundred years of prosperity, grow people CHINA
21 Eleven don’t make a dozen USA
22 The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second-best time is now CHINA
23 Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is the best CHINA
24 Misfortunes come by forties WALES
25 Gossip lasts but seventy-five days JAPAN
26 One can study calligraphy at eighty JAPAN
27 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration USA
28 Better one living word than a hundred dead ones GERMANY
29 A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles CHINA
30 One bird in the dish is better than a hundred in the air GERMANY
31 A basket-maker who makes one basket makes a hundred BRAZIL
32 A hundred aunts is not the same as one mother SIERRA LEONE
33 A hundred men may make an encampment, but it needs a woman to make a home CHINA
34 A worn-out boat still has three thousand nails in it CHINA
35 A good child has several names ESTONIA
36 Beware of the door which has several keys INDIA
15 NEXT TO NOTHING
1 Take a second look; it costs you nothing CHINA
2 Little said is easy mended; nothing said needs no mending IRELAND
3 Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas GERMANY
4 Nothing enters into a closed hand SCOTLAND
5 Nothing dries sooner than a tear LATIN
6 Nothing kills like doing nothing DENMARK
7 Nothing venture, nothing gain ENGLAND
8 When the sun shines the moon has nothing to do FRANCE
9 Those who are silent do not say nothing SPAIN
10 When in doubt, do nothing ENGLAND
11 Someone who stands behind a wall can see nothing else JAPAN
12 What costs nothing is worth nothing NETHERLANDS
13 One servant is a servant; two servants are half a servant; three servants are no servant at all POLAND
14 The one who hunts two rats will catch neither UGANDA
15 The one who hunts two hares will catch neither FRANCE
16 Who does not understand half a word will not be wiser for a whole word FINLAND
17 Half a loaf is better than no bread ENGLAND
16 MULTITUDE
1 A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; they keep him from broodin’ on being a dog USA
2 When rats infest the palace a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse CHINA
3 Many donkeys need much straw SPAIN: BASQUE
4 You are as many a person as languages you know ARMENIA
5 Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts CHINA
6 Too many affairs are like pumpkins in water; one pops up while you try to hold down the other CHINA
7 Three are too many and two are too few BELGIUM
8 Many kiss the child for the nurse’s sake ENGLAND
9 Many lose when they win, and others win when they lose GERMANY
10 One may as well lose the game by a card too much as a card too few SPAIN
11 Much treasure, many moths ESTONIA
12 The frightened person has many voices FINLAND
13 Many speak a word which if it were a florin they would put back in their purse GERMANY
14 If pride were an art, how many graduates we should have ITALY
15 Those who read many epitaphs, lose their memory LATIN
16 Many a true word is spoken in jest ENGLAND
17 The rose that is smelt by many loses its fragrance SPAIN
18 There are many paths to the top of the mountain – but the view is always the same CHINA
19 On a green tree there are many parrots INDIA
20 Many have bees and buy wax GERMANY
21 Many drops make a puddle NETHERLANDS
22 Too many cooks spoil the broth ENGLAND
23 Too many cooks oversalt the porridge NETHERLANDS
24 Too many hands spoil the pie СКАЧАТЬ