However much you steal from your state, all the same you won't get your own back.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about state
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It will last out our time; if after us no grass grows, what does it matter to us?
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time
You needn't be afraid of a barking dog, but you should be afraid of a silent dog.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, good, good luck
If you are going to do something carelessly, it is better to give it up entirely.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The first goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the third as a little bird.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
The wise man says I am looking for truth; and the fool, I have found truth.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about truth, man
One does not sharpen the axes after the right time; after the time they are needed.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time, rightness
A hammer breaks glass, but also forms steel. Everything cannot be hung on one nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Overseas, a cow costs a quarter of kopeck, but it will cost a rouble to ship it here.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
Pull out the beak and the tail gets stuck, pull out the tail and the beak gets stuck.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
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
If Moscow is the heart of Russia and St. Petersburg is its head, then Kiev is its mother.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about mother, heads, heart
