Proverbs and old sayings, page 1729

43574 proverbs and old sayings

A toad too would like to crack nuts, but he has no teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

There would be no good fortune had misfortune not helped.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, good, good luck

Even pulling a fish out of the pond requires some effort.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fishing

If you enjoy riding, you better enjoy pulling the sleigh.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

If you feel an urge to work, take a nap, and it will pass.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about work, contentment

Give your children too much freedom and you lose your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children, contentment

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about intelligence, mother

It is easier for the horse when a woman gets off the cart.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about woman

Overseas, a cow a quarter of kopeck, but a rouble to ship.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

He took the devil's mat, but he'll pay back with his skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil

My job 'cock-a-doodle-doo'; from then on, it may not dawn.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

It is easier to fill 20 bellies than one pair of the eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eyes

It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eyes

Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about science

The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

If the child does not cry, the mother knows not its wants.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children, mother

Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about beauty, mother

Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about family, soul, rightness

No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about good, good luck, man