With a piece of bread in your hand you'll find paradise under a pine tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about paradise
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If you have eaten the morsel on Wednesday, do not look for it on Thursday.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
In other persons' eye one can see a mote, in one's own - cannot see a log.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about people
Take care of your dress from when it's new and your honor from your youth.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about youth
If mushrooms grew in the mouth, that would be not mouth but kitchen garden.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about garden
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about experience, youth, age, olderness
A smart person will not climb a mountain; A smart person will go around it.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about intelligence, people
There are two kinds of Chinese: those who give wine and those who drink it.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about drinking, wine
For him who does not believe in signs, there is no way to live in the world.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about astrology, world
Each day learns from the one before it, but no day teaches the one after it.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about day
If the peasant doesn't hear the thunder he won't make the sign of the cross.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry
The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, home, house
Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar just as easily as a light beggar.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about light, death
Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about body, soul, god
One is received according to one's dress and sent off according to one's wit.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about country, eyes, water
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, man
A fool may throw into a well a stone which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man
After your daughter is married, there comes a number of potential sons-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about numbers, law
