Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about intelligence, mother
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It is easier for the horse when a woman gets off the cart.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about woman
Overseas, a cow a quarter of kopeck, but a rouble to ship.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
He took the devil's mat, but he'll pay back with his skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil
My job 'cock-a-doodle-doo'; from then on, it may not dawn.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
It is easier to fill 20 bellies than one pair of the eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eyes
It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about eyes
Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about science
The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.
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 about contentment
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, contentment
