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You get used to everything -- even hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about hell, contentment

The word is silver, the silence is gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about silence, word

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about optimism

As you make your bed, so you will sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about sleep, contentment

On an empty belly every burden is heavy.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about burden

When a girl is born all four walls weep.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

You cannot make a soft bed for everyone.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Habit is a shirt that we wear till death.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about habits, death

It is bread that keeps one warm, not fur.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Do not plant a tree with its root upward.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A bachelor is never sent as a go-between.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eternity

A woman's tongue is longer than her hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about woman

Death does not take the old but the ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about death, old, olderness

Your elbow is near but you can't bite it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Better a bed of wood than a bier of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

The man is the flame, the woman the glow.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about woman, man

Nothing is worse than waiting or chasing.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about nothing

Partnership is an invention of the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about invention, devil

Loose words are picked up like gold coin.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about word