The Americas
Más vale tarde que nunca.
Spanish
Translation: Better late than never.
Первый блин комом.
Russian
Translation: The first pancake is lumpy.
نهاركم مبروك
Arabic
Translation: May your day be happy
น้ำขึ้นให้รีบตัก
Thai
Translation: Strike while the iron is hot.
Helaas pindakaas
Dutch
Translation: Too bad, peanut butter.
Cada macaco no seu galho.
Portuguese
Translation: Each monkey on its own branch.
Mít obě ruce levé.
Czech
Translation: To have both left hands.
Wors in die hondestal soek.
Afrikaans
Translation: Searching for sausage in the dog stable.
Холбоо бол амжилтын эх үүсвэр юм
Mongolian
Translation: Union is the source of success
掩耳盗铃
Mandarin
Translation: Covering Ears to Steal a Bell.
La nuit porte conseil.
French
Translation: The night brings advice.
Feri ando payi sitsholpe te nauyas.
Romani
Translation: It was in the water that one learned to swim
ልጅን ሲወዱ እስከነ ጉዱ
Amharic
Translation: Love me, love my dog.
आ नो भद्रा: क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वत
Sanskrit
Translation: Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.
Balat Sibuyas.
Tagalog
Translation: Onion-skinned.
Ukhu pacha kutimuq.
Quechua
Translation: He who returns from the underworld.
Thig crìoch air an t-saoghal, ach mairidh gaol is ceòl.
Scottish Gaelic
Translation: The world will end, but love and music will endure.
Indho jacayl isma eegaan.
Somali
Translation: Lovers' eyes are shy.
སྐད་རིགས་གཅིག་གིས་གདེང་ཐབས་མི་འདུག
Tibetan
Translation: One language is never enough.
Kılı kırk yarmak
Turkish
Translation: To split a hair into forty.
Karuvai.
Guarani
Translation: To eat ugly/poorly.
De dál gal leat skiremoni borran.
Sámi
Translation: I think you just ate a magpie egg
Huwezi kujua ukiwezacho mpaka umejaribu.
Swahili
Translation: You cannot know what you can do until you have tried.
Mammula ka ta mapia, gataban nu noka.
Ibanag
Translation: He who sows goodness, reaps gratitude.
Vēzos qēlossās ñuho.
High Valyrian
Translation: My sun and stars.