More Russian Proverbs

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies... >>

A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.... >>

They gave the naked man a shirt and he said it was too thick.... >>

It is easy to undress the naked.... >>

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred day... >>

Other Proverbs

Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.... (English) >>

There is some distance between Peter and Peter.... (Spanish) >>

We have no son, and yet are giving him a name.... (Spanish) >>

The account is correct, but not a sixpense appears.... (Spanish) >>

Eating and scratching want but a beginning... (Greek) >>

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

- Russian Proverb