With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Paradise
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
—Russian Proverb
The future is for those who know how to wait.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Future
Even an eagle will not fly higher than the sun.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Flying
Eternal peace lasts until the next war.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Peace
A lonely person is at home everywhere.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Home
You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Home
Trust, but verify.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Trust
Absentmindedness is searching for the horse you are riding.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Open-mindedness
Small gifts go to places where men expect bigger ones.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Gifts
To keep a new friend, never break with the old.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Future, Foresight
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Property
Custom is stronger than law.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Law
Smooth hands love the labor of others.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Labor
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
—Russian Proverb
A bad peace is better than a good war.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Peace
Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Hypocrisy, Proverbs
There’s no harm in wine; it’s drunkenness that is at fault.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
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 Proverb
Topics: Paradise
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Adversity
When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Revenge
When money speaks the truth is silent.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Money
Trust in God, but mind your own business.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Business
Pray for revenge, and God will turn a deaf ear.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Revenge
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Silence, Money
Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Past, Regret
Spending is quick, earning is slow.
—Russian Proverb
Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Language
Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea.
—Russian Proverb
Topics: Gifts