A saying is a flower, a proverb is a berry.

More Russian Proverbs

• To become a master or to be gone.
• Your elbow is close, yet you can’t bite it.
• Time makes the best healer.
• Whoever does not take risks, does not drink champagne.
• God gives to those who wake up early.
• God gave, God took back.
• No family has no ugly member.
• One can’t have two deaths, but you can’t avoid one.
• The still waters are inhabited by devils.
• God likes trinity.
• All is well that ends well.
• A saying is a flower, a proverb is a berry.
• My house is at the end of the street, so I have no idea what is going on.
• God does not give horns to a butting cow.
• When you rush, you make people laugh.
• We will live – we will see.
• A chatterbox is a treasure for a spy.
• Measure seven times, cut once.
• The first pancake is always lumpy.
• For a big ship, a big voyage.
• A spoken word is not a sparrow.
• Do not have hundred rubles, rather have hundred friends.
• Paper will endure anything.
• Work is not a wolf – it won’t run away to the forest.
• If you have physical power, you do not need intelligence.
• Paper has no soul – you can put anything on it.
• Don’t go to another monastery with your own rules.