A stitch in time saves nine
Один стежок, сделанный вовремя, стоит девяти.
Смысл: то, что делается своевременно, экономит много труда впоследствии.
Другие пословицы:
- Time is money
- Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
- Life is but a span
- He that seeks trouble never misses
- Company in distress makes trouble less
- Better a glorious death than a shameful life
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin
- Time is the great healer
- Live not to eat, but eat to live
- Life is not a bed of roses
- Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
- Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- Live and let live
- Standers-by see more than gamesters
- Friends are thieves of time