Proverbs and old sayings Russian, page 48

953 proverbs and old sayings russian

In a deal there are two fools: the one who asks too much and the one who asks too little.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

When you meet a man judge him by his clothes, when you leave a man judge him by his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges, clothes, heart, man

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges, clothes, heart, man

The first [cup of vodka] goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the third as a little bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Do not praise yourself when going of to battle going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about praise

If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about reason, nothing

There was a time they loved an accordionist, and now the time has come where they love a tractor driver.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time, love

Plan your life as though you were going to live forever, but live today as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about life

If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about paradise, wife

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, war