58 Proverbs with Russian origins

A field held in common is always ravaged by bears.;
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A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains;
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A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.;
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A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves.;
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After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.;
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An egg is dear on Easter day.;
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An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.;
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An icy May fills the granaries.;
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An indispensable thing never has much value.;
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An old loan repaid is like finding something new.;
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As long as a child does not cry it does not matter what pleases it.;
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house;
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Bad luck is fertile.;
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big children heartache.;
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Devils live in quiet pond.;
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.;
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Don't worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend.;
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Even a coffin is made to measure.;
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Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows.;
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Every road has two directions;
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Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
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God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers.;
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Golden hands, but a wicked mouth.;
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Gratitude is the heart's memory;
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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.;
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He that hath no heart, let him have heels.;
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He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.;
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything;
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If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow;
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If you put your nose into water, you will also wet your cheeks.;
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In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.;
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It is easy to undress the naked.;
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It is good to sleep in a whole skin.;
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies;
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Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside.;
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No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.;
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No one is dragged to heaven by the hair.;
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One son is no son, two sons is no son, but three sons is a son.;
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Only a fool will make the doctors his heir.;
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Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.;
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Small children give you headache;
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Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.;
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Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.;
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The coat is quite new, only the holes are old.;
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The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly.;
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The lucky man's enemy dies, and the unlucky man's friend.;
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The old bear falls into the old trap.;
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There is a pinch of the madman in every great man;
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There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.;
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They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting.;
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They gave the naked man a shirt and he said it was too thick.;
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To run away is not glorious, but very healthy.;
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What the rake gathers, the fork scatters.;
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When roubles falls from heaven there is no sack, when there is a sack roubles don't fall.;
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When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us.;
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When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.;
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Wild ducks and tomorrow both come without calling.;
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With seven nurses the child loses it eye.;
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