654 Sayings of Russian Origin
1. "If Jesus Christ comes to help me, I laugh at the angels." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "Soap is grey but it used to be white." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "No apple tree is immune from worms." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "A net will catch more than a pole." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "Water does not run under a lying stone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "A good wife and a wholesome cabbage soup, what more could you want?" (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "A magpie brought it on its tail." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "Another city, another temper." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "One can't spoil porridge with butter." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "The bear dances but the tamer collects the money." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "Still water undermines the bank." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "Do not look for trouble, trouble will find you itself." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "With a piece of bread in your hand you'll find paradise under a pine tree." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "A clever speech is pleasant to listen to." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "The eye can see it, but the tooth can't bite it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "There may be deep bottoms in still waters." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "Fish seek a deep place, men seek a better place." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "Hope for God, but do not be reliant." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Chickens are counted in autumn." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "Fishermen recognize each other from far away." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "A goose is not a pig's friend." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "Two boots make a pair." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "Gossip needs no carriage." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "Even the sword doesn't cut the head of the one who confesses." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "One should count chicks in autumn." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "Truth does not need many words." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "The nights are short for him who married late in life." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "With seven nurses the child loses its eye." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Give him a fingernail, he will ask for the forearm." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "As soon as your cart is turned over, everyone rushes to give you advice." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "Live and scratch, when you're dead the itching will stop." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "Partnership is an invention of the devil." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "I would have had no luck, if not for misfortune." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Leave the good enough in peace." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "Cut down the tree that you are able to." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "The night walks the same road as the dream." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "What makes you happy, makes you rich." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "Desire is worse than compulsion." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "Who lives in exile finds that spring has no charm." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "Don't blame your wife's side if your son is cross-eyed." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "How echo is prompted, it will bounce back." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "In a rickety stable the cow produces no milk." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "One fisherman recognizes another from afar." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "For every one with a plow, there's seven with a spoon." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "In the lake of lies there are many dead fish." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "One can get sick of cake, but never of bread." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "Who wants heat, must endure the smoke." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "No one can take two skins from one ox." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Tears come more often from the eyes than from the heart." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "If everyone were a gentleman, who would make the mills work?" (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "Don't cast beads in front of pigs." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "The wolf is beaten not for being grey, but for having eaten a sheep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "Custom is stronger than law." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "Live for a century, learn for a century." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "Not every day is a Shrovetide, in time it will be a Lent." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "For a drunk, the sea is knee-deep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "With company, even death loses its sting." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "Poverty is not a sin, it's worse than that." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "A loss is a gain for the mind." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "Ears do not grow higher than the head." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "Law is like the shaft of a cart, it points wherever you turn it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "Other people's money has sharp teeth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "Seven people don't wait for one." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "Advertising is the driving force of business." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "The wolf can always be hired very cheap as a shepherd." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "It is unpleasant to go alone, even to be drowned." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "Wolf in sheep's pelt." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "One good daughter is worth seven sons." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "Without the shepherd, sheep are not a flock." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "The nightingale can't be fed by fables." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "In Russia every day is of thirty hours." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "Smooth hands love the labor of others." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "Do not make jokes that cost more than a ruble." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "Ask a lot, but take what is offered." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "A woman's hair is long, and her mind short." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "If the peasant doesn't hear the thunder he won't make the sign of the cross." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "What fell off the cart is as good as gone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "Make yourself a sheep and the wolf is ready." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "When gold speaks, everything else is silent." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "A drowning man grabs even a straw." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "Habit is a shirt that we wear till death." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "If you want to be a hundred you must start young." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "Poverty is a sin that the rich never forgive." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "If you cut it, you won't get it back." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "If you called yourself a milk-mushroom, get into the basket!" (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "A field in common is always ravaged by bears." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "One's own shirt is closer to the body." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "Only grave will cure the hunchback." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "A cross-eyed Tsar, one-eyed ministers, blind subjects." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "Ride slower, you'll get further." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "Who owns the bank owns the fish." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "Without effort, you can't even pull a fish out of the pond." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "To ask is no sin, and to be refused is no calamity." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "It's good there, where we are not." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "Not everything is a mermaid that dives into the water." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "A tale is told quickly, but the job is done slowly." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "What was written by a pen can't be erased by an axe." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "Although there's nothing to eat, life is fun." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "Whoever wants honey must breed bees." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "A friendly word is like a spring day." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "He who is frightened of a sparrow will never sow barley." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "A wise man sees only water in the tears of a woman." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "The newborn baby yells; you die in silence." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "The wolf spared the mare, left a tail and mane." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "What we own, we don't keep properly; when we lose it, we cry." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "A spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "Don't swap horses when crossing the stream." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "Extinguish the spark before the house is on fire, deflect the trouble before its strike." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "Abuse doesn't hang on the collar." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "What's on sober's mind, is on drunk's tongue." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "Even the sword doesn't cut the head of the one who confesses." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "The thief has a chicken's heart, he sleeps in fear." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "Even in the ashes there will be a few sparks." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "Every cricket must know its hearth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "Thanks to one small candle the whole of Moscow burns." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "If you rush things, you'll only make others laugh." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "When we sing everybody hears us; when we sigh, nobody hears us." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "God keeps those safe who keep themselves safe." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "If you take a day trip, take a week's supply of bread." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "There is no smoke without fire." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "Quality goods advertise themselves." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "There will be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "A priest's belly is made up of several sheepskins." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "Success and rest don't sleep together." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "The hearth in our house is warmer than our neighbor's." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "If and when mushrooms grew in the mouth, that would have been not mouth but kitchen garden." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "There'll be a holiday in our street too." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "All is well that ends well." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "A day is long, but a lifetime is short." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
149. "A judge and a stomach do their asking in silence." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
150. "What you plant, you will harvest." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
151. "Without a cat, mice feel free." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
152. "If all of us take hold of it together, it won't feel heavy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
153. "A day is long, but a lifetime is short." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
154. "Your tongue will take you as far as Kiev." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
155. "There may be deep bottoms in still waters." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
156. "A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
157. "A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
158. "Golden hands, but a wicked mouth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
159. "The bear dances but the tamer collects the money." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
160. "Don't open your mouth to eat other people's bread." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
161. "The shovel insults the poker." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
162. "Grey hair into beard, devil into rib." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
163. "There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
164. "He makes the bed soft, yet it's hard to sleep on." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
165. "An empty mill will turn without the wind." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
166. "First the stable, then the cow." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
167. "If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
168. "Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
169. "The past is for God, the future for the Tsars." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
170. "What fell off the cart is as good as gone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
171. "Measure seven times, cut once." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
172. "Judges and physicians kill with impunity." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
173. "A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
174. "Make peace with people; wage war with your sins." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
175. "Morning is wiser than the evening." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
176. "Naked, but right." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
177. "Repetition is the mother of learning." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
178. "The belly is like a judge that is silent yet still asks questions." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
179. "Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
180. "Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
181. "There is no law written for fools." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
182. "You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
183. "Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
184. "An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
185. "The river is flat but the banks are steep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
186. "If the fool ties a knot, even a clever person can't untie it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
187. "Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
188. "Don't have a friend who always agrees with you, but have a friend who argues with you." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
189. "A bachelor is never sent as a go-between." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
190. "When a girl is born all four walls weep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
191. "Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
192. "If given, take it; if beaten, run away." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
193. "love's evil, you'll love even a goat." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
194. "Take the bull by the horns." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
195. "There are two kinds of Chinese, those who give wine and those who drink it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
196. "Around bread there will always be crumbs." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
197. "What comes out of one mouth goes into a hundred others." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
198. "If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
199. "A new broom sweeps in a new way." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
200. "Paper will endure anything." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
201. "Death answers before it is asked." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
202. "A lonely person is at home everywhere." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
203. "Clemency is the support of justice." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
204. "One cannot make a fur coat from thanks." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
205. "You don't learn anything from buying, but you do from selling." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
206. "You don't milk a cow with your hands in your pockets." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
207. "Even one matters in the battlefield." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
208. "Envy sees the sea but not the rocks." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
209. "Be wise, but pretend to be ignorant." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
210. "With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
211. "The morning is wiser than the evening." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
212. "A spring egg is dear at the Easter day." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
213. "God is always where we don't look for him." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
214. "As long as a child does not cry, it does not matter what pleases it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
215. "Only chained bears dance." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
216. "Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
217. "Unless thunder strikes, a man won't cross himself." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
218. "Even good dogs have fleas." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
219. "The further into the woods, the more firewood you'll encounter." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
220. "They come into the courtroom in a suit and leave with no trousers." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
221. "After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
222. "Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar just as easily as a light beggar." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
223. "Envy can breed swans from bad duck eggs." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
224. "While he was sinking, he promised me an axe if I save him, but when pulled ashore, he begrudged even an axe handle." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
225. "There are no friends in tastes and colors." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
226. "One does not go to Tula with one's own samovar." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
227. "God likes trinity." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
228. "When a needle sees a dagger, she cries “O sister!”." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
229. "Complacent fool harms worse than enemy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
230. "The person whose Grandma tells fortunes is happy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
231. "Pray for revenge, and God will turn a deaf ear." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
232. "They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
233. "The poorer, the more generous." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
234. "Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the czar won't see his face." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
235. "Look for wind in a field." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
236. "God wanted to punish mankind, so he created lawyers." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
237. "It is bread that keeps one warm, not fur." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
238. "A golden handshake convinces even the most skeptical judge." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
239. "The dog learns to swim when the water reaches his ears." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
240. "Poor people are crafty." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
241. "One thread from everyone in the world, makes a shirt for the naked." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
242. "What the heart doesn't see, the eye will not see either." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
243. "One day before you is better than ten years behind you." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
244. "When money speaks the truth is silent." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
245. "Simplicity is worse than thievery." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
246. "One son is no son, two sons is no son, but three sons is a son." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
247. "Don't ask the old one, ask the experienced one." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
248. "Small gifts go to places where men expect bigger ones." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
249. "The calmer you go, the further along you will be." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
250. "Forgiveness is a pillar of justice." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
251. "Where something is thin, that's where it tears." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
252. "In another person's eye one can notice even a mote, but in one's own, cannot see even a log." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
253. "Wisdom is born; stupidity is learned." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
254. "Don't say “hop”, until you jumped over." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
255. "Once you have fallen into the water, you're not scared of water any more." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
256. "Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
257. "A clever head, but given to foolishness." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
258. "The castle gates will always open for gold-laden donkeys." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
259. "Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
260. "Not all who make love make marriages." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
261. "Eggs cannot teach a hen." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
262. "Rotten straw can harm a healthy horse." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
263. "Truth is spoken from the toddler's mouth; From the mouth of babes." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
264. "If you talk to an official you must talk rubles." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
265. "Eat until you are half full; drink until you are half drunk." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
266. "When you are in a pack of hounds, you either bark or wag your tail." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
267. "You get used to everything, even hell." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
268. "Out of sight, out of heart." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
269. "One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
270. "I'd like to drink honey with your lips." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
271. "I sell it for what I bought it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
272. "Two deaths will not happen, but one is inevitable." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
273. "Trust, but verify." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
274. "Don't dig a pit for somebody to fall into, or you will end up in it yourself." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
275. "No year has two summers." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
276. "A soldier who doesn't dream of becoming a general is a bad one." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
277. "Words are silver, silence is gold." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
278. "Any wise man has enough of simplicity." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
279. "You cannot throw a word out of a song." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
280. "Spending is quick, earning is slow." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
281. "There is no truth in feet." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
282. "After your daughter is married, there comes a number of potential sons-in-law." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
283. "Do not look for further good from good." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
284. "Give a naked man a piece of cloth and he will say it is too thick." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
285. "The boss is always right." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
286. "Pray to God but continue to row to the shore." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
287. "Another person's soul is in darkness." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
288. "Bread is the head of everything." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
289. "A holy place is never empty." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
290. "One who seeks no friends is his own enemy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
291. "He need not search his pockets for words." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
292. "Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
293. "Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
294. "Let everyone pick his own nose." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
295. "Your dog wishes you a long life." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
296. "Horseradish is no sweeter than radish." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
297. "Don't wade into a river without knowing a ford." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
298. "There is more light than can be seen through the window." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
299. "Work is afraid of a skilled worker." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
300. "If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
301. "A toad too would like to crack nuts, but he has no teeth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
302. "A drop hollows out a stone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
303. "Sorrow doesn't kill, but it blights." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
304. "The woman had no trouble, so she bought a piglet." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
305. "An old dog can't get used to chains." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
306. "As long as the fish swims in the water, don't light up the grill." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
307. "When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
308. "You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
309. "On a fishing lull, even a crayfish is fish, at the lack people even a lazybones is a human being." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
310. "Honest work won't let you live in a stone palace." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
311. "Bury truth in a golden coffin, it will break it open." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
312. "You have summer and you have winter, why, then, be in a hurry?" (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
313. "Jesus Christ was crucified by public opinion." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
314. "The snail is coming, who knows when it arrives." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
315. "One shouldn't beat the one who fell." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
316. "If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
317. "Eternal peace lasts until the next war." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
318. "Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
319. "Tambourines are good when they are behind mountains." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
320. "There are many fathers, but only one mother." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
321. "One road for the fugitive and a hundred for the pursuer." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
322. "You can't escape your fate even with a horse." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
323. "Do not spit into a well, it may be useful to drink water." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
324. "You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
325. "Fear the law not the judge." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
326. "He who offers his back should not complain if it is beaten." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
327. "The first pancake is always a failure." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
328. "One doesn't shear naked sheep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
329. "When the Tsar sins the Empire must do penance." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
330. "To know that candles are expensive is of no value to the blind man." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
331. "The cat knows whose meat it has eaten." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
332. "You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
333. "Everything tastes bitter to him with gall in his mouth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
334. "An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
335. "If a poor man finds a penny, it is probably a false one." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
336. "In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
337. "No family has no ugly member." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
338. "On an empty belly every burden is heavy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
339. "Vodka is the aunt of wine." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
340. "All lay loads on a willing horse." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
341. "The river's reputation ends where the sea begins." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
342. "God doesn't give more beards than soap." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
343. "Friendship is friendship but service is service." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
344. "Better a bed of wood than a bier of gold." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
345. "Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
346. "You don't get a headache from what other people have drunk." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
347. "It will snap where it's thinnest." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
348. "Even a cat appreciates kind words." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
349. "It's better to be known as a rascal than a fool." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
350. "If only youth would know, if only old age were able." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
351. "Patience and work will fray through anything." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
352. "Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
353. "The cat with cream on her whiskers should have a good excuse ready." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
354. "It's a crime if you get caught." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
355. "He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
356. "So the man, so his shadow." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
357. "What you go looking for, you will find." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
358. "Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and man from all sides." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
359. "God gave, God took back." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
360. "The naked don't fear robbery." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
361. "Bad news doesn't rest peacefully." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
362. "Money is like down, one puff and it's gone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
363. "Our eyes are our enemies." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
364. "As long as a child does not cry, it does not matter what pleases it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
365. "A kind word is like a Spring day." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
366. "What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
367. "The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
368. "What used to be, is now gone and overgrown with grass." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
369. "If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
370. "The Tsar has three hands but only one ear." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
371. "The titmouse boasted of putting the sea on the fire." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
372. "A spooked crow is afraid of a bush." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
373. "Better late than never." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
374. "Bread doesn't go for the belly." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
375. "Don't be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
376. "A silent man is not a conquered man." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
377. "Only a fool will make a doctor his heir." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
378. "A dog on hay will neither eat it himself, nor let others eat it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
379. "Who falls in the water will hold on to the foam to save himself." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
380. "The scythe has hit a stone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
381. "As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
382. "A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
383. "A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
384. "If rubles fell from heaven the poor would have no bag." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
385. "A fisherman can tell another fisherman from afar." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
386. "They use a wedge to knock out a wedge." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
387. "In a fight the rich man tries to save his face, the poor man his coat." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
388. "The moon gives us light but no heat." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
389. "The apple falls not so far away from the apple-tree." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
390. "A sleeping fox counts chicken in his dreams." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
391. "Living your life is not like crossing a meadow." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
392. "The bird is known by its flight." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
393. "Habit is a shirt that we wear till death." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
394. "The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing the job." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
395. "Fortune and misfortune live in the same courtyard." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
396. "You can bend an alder-tree, if you do it gradually." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
397. "There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
398. "Never kiss an opportunity with a dirty mouth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
399. "Keep your ears wider and your mouth narrower." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
400. "Hands wash each other, a thief covers another thief." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
401. "I ran from the wolf but ran into a bear." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
402. "Hang a German, even if he is a good man." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
403. "A fool is not afraid to lose his mind." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
404. "Eat bread and salt, cut the mother truth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
405. "Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
406. "The person afraid of bad luck will never know good." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
407. "Every sandpiper praises his own swamp." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
408. "It is good to pay with other people's money." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
409. "Studying is light; not studying is darkness." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
410. "When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
411. "For a big ship, a big voyage." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
412. "Do not make elephant out of fly." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
413. "A nightingale doesn't feed on songs." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
414. "A cat always knows whose meat it eats." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
415. "Don't boast when you start out, but when you get there." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
416. "Love is like a glass that breaks if handled clumsily." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
417. "Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
418. "A woman's tongue is longer than her hair." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
419. "Work is not a wolf, it's not going away to the forest." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
420. "A boat stands firmer with two anchors." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
421. "All are not cooks who walk with long knives." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
422. "The man is the flame, the woman the glow." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
423. "Your elbow is close, yet you can't bite it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
424. "After all, every man is the son of a woman." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
425. "You'll learn from those you hang out with." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
426. "A girl never grows into a lady." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
427. "He who serves the Tsar cannot serve his people." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
428. "The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
429. "The stargazer's toe is often stubbed." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
430. "A bad peace is better than a good quarrel." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
431. "The wise man says “I am looking for truth”; and the fool, “I have found truth”." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
432. "You never know what you can do till you try." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
433. "Habit is second nature." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
434. "An old friend is better than two new ones." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
435. "Wine causes guilt." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
436. "One does not look for good when he is well." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
437. "Trouble never comes alone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
438. "No one is dragged to heaven by the hair." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
439. "No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
440. "Not for village, not for town." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
441. "The noblemen's quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
442. "They choose lesser of two evils." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
443. "Do not make elephant out of fly." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
444. "I'm not me, and this horse isn't mine." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
445. "Seven axes lie together, two distaffs apart." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
446. "Lie, but don't overdo it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
447. "The more you know the less will you sleep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
448. "Make a friend of the wolf, but keep your axe ready." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
449. "Fear has big eyes." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
450. "Visiting is good, but home is better." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
451. "The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
452. "A horse has four legs, but still stumbles." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
453. "Don't praise your furnace when the house is cold." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
454. "When misers die, children open up their coffers." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
455. "Why marry, when your neighbor's wife is ready to go to bed with you?" (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
456. "Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
457. "Live and scratch, when you're dead the itching will stop." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
458. "Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
459. "When death is there, dying is over." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
460. "A word of kindness is better than a fat pie." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
461. "The future is for those who know how to wait." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
462. "Forbidden fruit is sweet." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
463. "Once you have fallen into the water, you're not scared of water any more." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
464. "A job feeds a man, laziness spoils him." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
465. "Tell God the truth, but give money to the judge." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
466. "To live with wolves, you have to howl like a wolf." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
467. "The blind cannot see, the proud will not." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
468. "Make a friend of the wolf, but keep your axe ready." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
469. "Haste is good only for catching flies." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
470. "You must chop down the tree that gives too much or too little shade." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
471. "Don't be afraid of the dog who barks, but be afraid of the one, who is silent and wags its tail." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
472. "Don't look for a sea when you can drown in a puddle." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
473. "Men will not be fortunate without a helping hand from misfortune." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
474. "The offender never forgives." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
475. "Invite a peasant to your table and he'll put his feet on it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
476. "You need sharp axes for knotty trees." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
477. "Seek the brave in prison and the stupid among the clergy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
478. "Work makes you into a hunchback and then rich." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
479. "Fate can't be avoided." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
480. "The raven won't peck out the eye of another." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
481. "Small children give you headache; big children heartache." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
482. "Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
483. "Cry and the whole world cries with you." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
484. "An indispensable thing never has much value." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
485. "A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
486. "Beginning is the big trouble." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
487. "The vulture embraced the chicken until its last breath." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
488. "You cannot build a wall with one stone." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
489. "Just because one fears wolves, is one not to go into the woods?" (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
490. "Once burned by milk you will blow on cold water." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
491. "The thief makes perhaps one mistake; those he stole from made a hundred." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
492. "You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
493. "A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
494. "Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
495. "Every day is a messenger of God." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
496. "A thief's hat burns." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
497. "Seven nannies make a kid not looked after." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
498. "The wolves are sated, and the sheep are intact." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
499. "Close to the Tsar, close to death." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
500. "The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
501. "When you are at home, even the walls help you." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
502. "They come into the courtroom in a suit and leave with no trousers." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
503. "On the tongue there's honey, and on the heart there's ice." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
504. "The tears of strangers are only water." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
505. "My tongue is my enemy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
506. "It is easier for the mare when a woman is off the cart." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
507. "The snail is coming, who knows when it arrives." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
508. "No-one goes to another monastery with their own charter." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
509. "No one is hanged who has money in his pocket." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
510. "The more you know the less will you sleep." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
511. "Seven troubles, one response." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
512. "Bread and salt never quarrel." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
513. "Give your children too much freedom and you lose your own." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
514. "Be fair to the devil." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
515. "Don't praise your furnace when the house is cold." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
516. "Who talks little hears better." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
517. "Time makes the best healer." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
518. "Friendship is friendship, but keep our tobacco apart." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
519. "For him who does not believe in signs, there is no way to live in the world." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
520. "Hunger is not your aunt." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
521. "Trust in God, but mind your own business." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
522. "Each time it's different." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
523. "Don't look at the teeth of a horse you've been given." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
524. "A pessimist is a well-informed optimist." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
525. "Fighting for your country glorifies death." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
526. "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." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
527. "A tale is soon told; a deed is not soon done." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
528. "The sober man's secret is the drunkard's speech." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
529. "It is easier to bear a child once a year than to shave every day." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
530. "Take a man at his word, an ox by the horns." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
531. "When wood is chopped, woodchips will fly." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
532. "A rumor fills the earth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
533. "It's not gods who make pots." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
534. "They don't swing fists when the fight is over." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
535. "On the belly there is silk, and in the belly, just a click." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
536. "A thousand friends are few; one enemy is too many." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
537. "You cannot please everybody." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
538. "It's better to be a cripple than always sitting down." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
539. "Bad news doesn't rest peacefully." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
540. "If you flatter the mother, you will embrace the daughter." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
541. "Every seed knows its time." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
542. "There is no repentance after death." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
543. "Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
544. "If your heart is a rose, then your mouth will speak perfumed words." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
545. "The hammer shatters glass but forges steel." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
546. "The devil boasted of ruling the whole world, but God didn't give him power over even the pig." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
547. "Fools are not sown or reaped, they appear by themselves." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
548. "The wolf is not afraid of the sheepdog, but he is of his chain." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
549. "Unless caught stealing, one is not a thief." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
550. "Where you saw wood, there the sawdust will fall." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
551. "Where necessity speaks it demands." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
552. "The one who pulls a cart is urged on." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
553. "One's own burden doesn't encumber." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
554. "When he mounts his horse he forgets God; when he dismounts, he forgets his horse." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
555. "He is brave when fighting against sheep, and when fighting against a brave man he's a sheep himself." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
556. "If you don't have a hundred rubles, make sure you have a hundred friends." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
557. "If God sends you meal, the devil takes the sack." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
558. "Seat the pig at the table, she'll put her legs on the table." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
559. "Wine bears no blame, only the drunkard." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
560. "Absentmindedness is searching for the horse you are riding." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
561. "First do it, then say it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
562. "When it's raining one doesn't roof the cottage, and when it's not raining the roof isn't leaking." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
563. "A stranger's soul is like a dark forest." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
564. "Paper will endure anything." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
565. "You cannot break a wall with your forehead." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
566. "Where goes a horse with its hoof, there goes a crayfish with its pincer." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
567. "There is no example for an unjust court." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
568. "The coat is quite new, only the holes are old." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
569. "Death does not take the old but the ripe." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
570. "Those who love you will make you weep; those who hate you will make you laugh." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
571. "Bragging is unlike mowing; it won't make your back ache." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
572. "If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
573. "A virgin's heart is a dark forest." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
574. "We all see the same sun, but we don't eat the same meal." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
575. "Drink but be an expert in your business." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
576. "Prey runs into a trapper." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
577. "Strike while the iron is hot." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
578. "If the family is together, the soul is in the right place." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
579. "Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
580. "Two deaths will not happen, but one is inevitable." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
581. "These are just flowers; berries will come soon." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
582. "Warm a frozen snake and it will be the first to bite you." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
583. "Good brotherhood is the best wealth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
584. "It is never winter in the land of hope." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
585. "Don't worry if you borrow, worry if you lend." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
586. "It's better to see once than hear a hundred times." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
587. "There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
588. "A sin of gold is followed by a punishment of lead." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
589. "It worked on paper, but we've forgotten about ravines." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
590. "A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge steel." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
591. "Don't put it in my ear, but in my hand." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
592. "It doesn't matter what the kid plays with as long as he doesn't cry." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
593. "If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
594. "Another's cow can moo, yours had best stay silent." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
595. "An old loan repaid is like finding something new." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
596. "Misfortune does not visit the weak-hearted." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
597. "The lonely person is at home everywhere." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
598. "One meets greets people by their clothes, and says farewell by their mind." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
599. "Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
600. "If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
601. "If you make a fool pray to God, he will hurt his forehead and other people's toes." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
602. "To keep a new friend, never break with the old." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
603. "When night falls the face of the wolf lights up." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
604. "In a deal there are two fools, the one who asks too much and the one who asks too little." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
605. "He who is destined for the gallows will not be drowned." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
606. "Water never loses its way." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
607. "Neither fish nor meat." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
608. "Bad luck is fertile." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
609. "One never tires working for oneself." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
610. "Not the place adorns the man, but a man adorns the place." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
611. "Judges and physicians kill with impunity." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
612. "One glass is for health, second one is for fun, third one is for nothing." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
613. "Death is a giant against whom even the Tsars must draw weapons." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
614. "Shame is worse than death." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
615. "Badly oiled wheels will squeak." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
616. "You know a bird from the way he flies." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
617. "Moustaches are respected, and beards worn even by goats." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
618. "Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
619. "A proverb can't be judged." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
620. "Better to turn back than to lose your way." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
621. "Eat what is cooked; listen to what is said." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
622. "Not every glittering thing is gold." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
623. "Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
624. "There is no honor when there is nothing to eat." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
625. "It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
626. "Every vegetable has its time." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
627. "Keep your ears wider and your mouth narrower." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
628. "In a crush, yet without resentment." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
629. "A boat stands firmer with two anchors." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
630. "Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing, said the pig to the horse." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
631. "You can't drive straight on a twisting lane." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
632. "Tis a hard winter when one wolf eats another." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
633. "There's no harm in wine; it's drunkenness that is at fault." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
634. "Lambskin is not worth currying." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
635. "Wolf feeds on his feet." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
636. "Acknowledgement is half of correction." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
637. "The agreement costs more than money." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
638. "Old age is not a blessing." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
639. "There's no bad without the good." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
640. "A single man in a field is not a warrior." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
641. "If the claw is stuck, the whole bird is lost." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
642. "You can best shoot an eagle with an arrow made from its own feathers." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
643. "Love and eggs are best when they are fresh." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
644. "Big in body, but small in deeds." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
645. "You can't keep a word of thanks in your pocket." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
646. "A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur cap." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
647. "They wait three years for what was promised." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
648. "Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
649. "They say they milk chickens." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
650. "Ice in spring is treacherous; new friendships are seldom sure." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
651. "Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
652. "A chatterbox is a treasure for a spy." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
653. "Even an eagle will not fly higher than the sun." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
654. "The slower you go, the farther you will be." (Russian Sayings) Click to tweet
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