Russian proverbs - near English equivalents?

[anne marie devlin]

Possibly the nearest equivalent for the first is 'love conquers all';  athough there is no mention of 'advice'.   
 
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:52:14 +0400
> From: elena.ostrovskaya at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian proverbs - near English equivalents?
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> Dear Zita,
> I am afraid I don't get what you / they mean by 'near equivalents'.
> Corresponding English proverbs? I'd be really surprised if there were one
> about banya. Or translation? Could you please clarify?
> Anyway, if you follow this link
> http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs_3.htm
> 
> you'll find equivalents and literal translation to your 1st and 4rth
> proverbs.
> For the 2nd,
> I'd say something like: The beauty of a home is hospitality, not decoration
> Literally: The beauty of a house is its pies, not its corners.
> 
> All that keeping in mind that 'krasny ugol' is not a red corner, or even a
> beautiful corner, since 'krasny' here means 'good', or 'beautiful', but a
> place of worship where the ikons are
> 
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красный_угол<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB>
> .
> 
> Thus the same thing can be understood in the religious line.
> 
> 3. The day you go to banya, you don't get older that day.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Elena Ostrovskaya
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs_3.htm>You'll find the
> equivalen and translation to your 1st and 3rd sayings.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Zita Dabars <ZitaD at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for your comments.
> >
> > I failed to say that the transliterated version (for which I was not
> > sufficiently accurate) will never appear in the "Answer Key to Mir
> > russkikh." The
> > transliteration was used only in the case that the Cyrillic did not appear
> > in the mailing which I sent to SEELANGS.
> >
> > Zita Dabars
> >
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