Proverbs and old sayings Russian, page 39

953 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

A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

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

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

Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Live and scratch -- when you're dead the itching will stop.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A kopeck saves the rouble, and the rouble guards your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads