ProverbPedia

Russian Proverb:
Give the naked a piece of cloth, and he will say it is too thick.

Russian Proverb:
Calumny is like coals—it either burns your hand or makes it dirty.

Russian Proverb:
If you wish to eat the honey in peace, you must kill the bees.

Russian Proverb:
One woman a market, two a fair.

Russian Proverb:
If every one gives a kopeck, the poor will have a rouble.

Russian Proverb:
The shovel insults the poker.

Russian Proverb:
Twice the wife is dear to her husband—when he marries her, and when he buries her.

Russian Proverb:
Love your wife like your soul, and shake her like a pear-tree.

Russian Proverb:
A full belly is deaf to learning.

Russian Proverb:
What is the good of honour, if there is nothing to eat.

Russian Proverb:
Where the devil is powerless he sends a woman as his messenger.

Russian Proverb:
He conquers towns with words.

Russian Proverb:
That is not life, that's only a carnival.

Russian Proverb:
If two dogs are quarrelling, let the third beware.

Russian Proverb:
The husband's sin remains on the threshold—the wife's enters the house.

Russian Proverb:
Men carry their superiority inside, animals outside.

Russian Proverb:
That which is taken in with the milk, only goes out with the soul.