Marianna, your examples of proverbs were delightful. There are many proverbs in other languages which are almost direct translations, and others which express the same sentiment but with a different analogy. Any examples unique to a particular language?

It is an amusing game to reconstruct the ending of proverbs as in
"If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving is not for you". (Not original I hasten to add). Anyone like to contribute some original or really amusing secondhand examples?
A stitch in time - really messes up Einstein's General Relativity theory.

Rod