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A golden handshake convinces even the most skeptical judge.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about judges

We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

What johnny will not teach himself, johnny will never know.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about public

The greatest king must at last be put to bed with a shovel.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Absentmindedness is searching for the horse you are riding.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about searching, contentment

Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Live and scratch -- when you're dead the itching will stop.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

A kopeck saves the rouble, and the rouble guards your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads

What was written by a pen, cannot be taken out with an axe.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Whether you hit an owl with a stump, or a stump with an owl.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about gifts, wealth, water

If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

No money is taken for just looking at somebody or something.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about money

Eat until you are half full; drink until you are half drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about drinking, contentment

If everyone were a gentleman, who would make the mills work?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about work

Invite a peasant to your table and he'll put his feet on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry

The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

You may call me even a pot, just don't put me into the oven.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment