Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 201

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

You don't learn anything from buying, but you do from selling.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

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

Law is like a shaft of a cart, it points wherever you turn it to.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

If you didn't catch anything when fishing, then a crab is a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Small children give you headache; big children give you heartache.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

With lies you may go ahead in the world--but you can never go back.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

A good wife and a wholesome cabbage soup, what more could you want?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

When you are in a pack of hounds, you either bark or wag your tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

You must chop down the tree that gives too much or too little shade.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Why marry, when your neighbor's wife is ready to go to bed with you?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Do not dig a hole for somebody else; you yourself will fall into it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Don't dig a hole for someone else, as you will fall into it yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

You can best shoot an eagle with an arrow made from its own feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment