You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
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There are only two types of Chinese -- those who give bribes and those who take them.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Take care of clothes since they are new, take care of your honor since you are young.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about clothes
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, man, god
Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry, proudness
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about garden
A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about good, good luck, man
A lucky man can stumble upon a treasure while an unlucky one can't even find a mushroom.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about treasure, man
In a deal there are two fools: the one who asks too much and the one who asks too little.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
When you meet a man judge him by his clothes, when you leave a man judge him by his heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges, clothes, heart, man
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges, clothes, heart, man
The first [cup of vodka] goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the third as a little bird.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Do not praise yourself when going of to battle going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about praise
If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about reason, nothing
There was a time they loved an accordionist, and now the time has come where they love a tractor driver.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time, love
Plan your life as though you were going to live forever, but live today as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about life
If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about paradise, wife
