Proverbs and old sayings, page 1732

43574 proverbs and old sayings

There were people before us and there will be people after us.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about people

Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about conversation

If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about reason, contentment

A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur cap.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, man

Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about home, house

The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry

Death is a giant against whom even the Tsars must draw weapons.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about death

One son is no son, two sons is no son, but three sons is a son.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

For a drunken one a sea is knee-deep, and a puddle - ears-deep.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

The wolf is not afraid of the sheepdog, but he is of his chain.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

If the child does not cry, the mother won't know what it wants.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about children, mother

When we sing everybody hears us; when we sigh, nobody hears us.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about thieves

However much, good you feed the wolf, he still looks at the wood.

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

Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things.

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

Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about deeds, man

They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

You have summer and you have winter -- why, then, be in a hurry?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

We use to live and spill tears, now we live and build happiness.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about tears, happiness, use

Who falls in the water will hold on to the foam to save himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about water