A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment
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43574 proverbs and old sayings
A ruler without a nation is like a flower without the sun.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about nation, garden, sun
It was smooth on paper, but we've forgotten about ravines.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
He who offers his back should not complain if it is beaten.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
There's no harm in wine, it's drunkenness that is at fault.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about drunkenness, wine
You don't get a headache from what other people have drunk.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about people, contentment
A golden handshake convinces even the most skeptical judge.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges
We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
What johnny will not teach himself, johnny will never know.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about public
The greatest king must at last be put to bed with a shovel.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Absentmindedness is searching for the horse you are riding.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about searching, contentment
Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment
Live and scratch -- when you're dead the itching will stop.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment
A kopeck saves the rouble, and the rouble guards your head.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads
What was written by a pen, cannot be taken out with an axe.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment
Whether you hit an owl with a stump, or a stump with an owl.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment
Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about gifts, wealth, water
If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
