Russian proverb Quotes and Quotations
Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood. If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. Believe not your own brother - believe, instead, your own blind eye. Gossip needs no carriage. The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. Women can do everything; men can do the rest. You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. When necessity speaks, it demands. No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest. A kind word is like a Spring day. Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. Every day is a messenger of God. The morning is wiser than the evening. Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside. A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams. There was never a saint with red hair. Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. When money speaks the truth is silent.
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