Russian proverbs - near English equivalents?

[Melissa Smith]

Banya  proverb -- Cleanliness is next to Godliness?

Melissa Smith
 
On 7/22/10 6:40 AM, anne marie devlin wrote:
> 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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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
Literatures  
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
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