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750 Magyar Közmondás - 750 Hungarian Proverbs - http://mek.oszk.hu/00200/00242/
Book by Paczolay Gyula, presenting Hungarian proverbs with their English translations.

A Collection of Scotch Proverbs - http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/scprv10.txt
Plagarized from David Fergusson by Pappity Stampoy (1663), with an introduction by Archer Taylor.

Best of Sicily - Sicilian Proverbs - http://www.bestofsicily.com/proverbs.htm
Small collection of Sicilian proverbs in English translation.

Buber's Basque Page: Esaera Zaharrak - http://www.buber.net/Basque/Euskara/proverb.html
Almost 300 Basque proverbs, with English translations and comments by Jon Aske.

English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs - http://www.deproverbio.com/DPbooks/EROM/dictionary.html
Features more than 1400 English proverbs and their Romanian equivalents.

Famous Sicilian Proverbs & Expressions - http://www.sicilianculture.com/dialect/proverbs.htm
Small collection in Sicilian, with English literal translation and idiom.

Finnish Proverbs and Poems - http://jdmoncada.tripod.com/finn/runot.html
Small collection of Finnish proverbs, with a poem by Tommy Tabermann (in Finnish and English).

Greek Proverbs - http://www.appletree.ie/projects/grkprov/grkprov.htm
Book presentation with three sample pages of ancient Greek proverbs and phrases.

Greek Spider: Greek Proverbs - http://www.greekspider.com/greek_sayings/
Fifteen Greek proverbs with explanations (in English).

Irish Proverbs - http://www.irishabroad.com/Culture/proverbs/
Wit and wisdom of the Irish, listed alphabetically.

Italian Proverbs - http://www.montepescali.com/proverbs-button.html
Push the button for Italian proverbs with English translation and equivalent.

János Baranyai Decsi and his Adagia - http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/tarsad/nyelvtud/adagia/adagia.htm
Article by Gyula Paczolay, University of Veszprém, on the first Hungarian proverb collection (1598).

Lituanus: Folk Wit in Proverbs and Riddles - http://www.lituanus.org/1999/99_1_04.htm
Small selection of Lithuanian proverbs and riddles with explanations.

Portuguese Idioms Literally Translated - http://www.tagide.com/pt-idioms.html
Compiled, translated, and explained in English by Tágide Crista.

Proverbs and Sayings - http://www.omda.bg/engl/ethnography/pogovorki.html
Bulgarian proverbs in English literal translation.

Proverbs du jour - http://home1.gte.net/bruggink/sayings.html
Thirty five Dutch proverbs and their English translation.

Qwiel Maltin: Maltese Proverbs - http://www.aboutmalta.com/grazio/qwiel2.html
Proverbs in Maltese with English translation.

Russian Proverbs - http://wtimmins.tripod.com/lore/russianproverbs.html
Small collection compiled by William H. Timmins (in English).

Russian Proverbs and Sayings - http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/culture/literature/russian-proverbs.html
Supplied from "A Book of English and Russian Proverbs and Sayings" by M. Dubrovin (in English, with explanations).

Sicilan Proverbs - http://dieli.net/SicilyPage/Proverbs/proverbs.html
More than a 1000 Sicilian proverbs with English translations, extracted from Giuseppe Pitrè's collection.

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