When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.
RUSSIAN PROVERB There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
RUSSIAN PROVERB It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Gossip needs no carriage.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A kind word is like a spring day.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things
RUSSIAN PROVERB You do not drink soup with a knife.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Eat what is cooked, listen to what is said.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A mile walk with a friend has only one hundred steps
RUSSIAN PROVERB The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
RUSSIAN PROVERB You can not break through a wall with your forehead.
RUSSIAN PROVERB You look for the horse you ride on
RUSSIAN PROVERB There was never a saint with red hair
RUSSIAN PROVERB For him who does not believe in signs, there is no way to live in the world.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A fly cannot enter a closed mouth
RUSSIAN PROVERB The burden is light on the shoulder of another
RUSSIAN PROVERB Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist
RUSSIAN PROVERB If you live among wolves you have to howl like a wolf.
RUSSIAN PROVERB When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart
RUSSIAN PROVERB There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel
RUSSIAN PROVERB Ask a lot, but take what is offered
RUSSIAN PROVERB Praying kneads no dough
RUSSIAN PROVERB You can't drive straight on a twisting lane.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A lonely person is at home everywhere
RUSSIAN PROVERB To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Let everyone pick his own nose.
RUSSIAN PROVERB If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock
RUSSIAN PROVERB The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
RUSSIAN PROVERB His word is as good as a tied knot.
RUSSIAN PROVERB If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail
RUSSIAN PROVERB A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest
RUSSIAN PROVERB Idleness is the mother of all vices.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The toe of the star-gazer is often stubbed
RUSSIAN PROVERB Spending is quick, earning is slow
RUSSIAN PROVERB Don't raise your stick and the dog won't bark at you.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The heart of a maiden is a dark forest
RUSSIAN PROVERB An argument is fine only when there is to be a fight.
RUSSIAN PROVERB As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
RUSSIAN PROVERB A good citizen owes his life to his country
RUSSIAN PROVERB Two hands upon the breast, and labor is past
RUSSIAN PROVERB Go Godward, you will find a road.
RUSSIAN PROVERB If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also
RUSSIAN PROVERB When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs
RUSSIAN PROVERB Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB If everyone gives one thread, the poor person will have a shirt
RUSSIAN PROVERB He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good
RUSSIAN PROVERB A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Give your children too much freedom and lose your own
RUSSIAN PROVERB Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it
RUSSIAN PROVERB The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living
RUSSIAN PROVERB Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The slower you go; the farther you will be
RUSSIAN PROVERB Pray to God, but continue to row toward shore.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The blind cannot see - the proud will not
RUSSIAN PROVERB The future belongs to him who knows how to wait
RUSSIAN PROVERB No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God; and can swim
RUSSIAN PROVERB All ages are submissive to love.
RUSSIAN PROVERB When money speaks, the truth is silent
RUSSIAN PROVERB Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues
RUSSIAN PROVERB Peace lasts till the army comes, and the army lasts till peace comes.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Not all who make love make marriages
RUSSIAN PROVERB Eternal peace lasts only until the next war
RUSSIAN PROVERB With lies you may go ahead in the world - but you can never go back
RUSSIAN PROVERB Small children give you headache; big children heartache
RUSSIAN PROVERB The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen
RUSSIAN PROVERB Love and eggs are best when they are fresh
RUSSIAN PROVERB A girls heart is like a dark wood
RUSSIAN PROVERB Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains
RUSSIAN PROVERB I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends bec...
RUSSIAN PROVERB What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Trust but verify.
RUSSIAN PROVERB To run away is not glorious, but very healthy
RUSSIAN PROVERB As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon
RUSSIAN PROVERB A priest's belly is made up of several sheepskins.
RUSSIAN PROVERB In a quarrel, leave room for reconciliation
RUSSIAN PROVERB If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also ...
RUSSIAN PROVERB God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers
RUSSIAN PROVERB One’s own shit doesn’t smell
OLD RUSSIAN SAYING A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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