Do not spit into the well; you may have to drink from it.
50+ Best Russian Proverbs Quotes & Wishes
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The farther into the forest, the more the firewood.
God preserves the one who preserves himself.
However well you feed the wolf, he keeps looking toward the forest.
There is no bad without some good in it.
To work, its time; to play, its hour.
The word is silver, silence is golden.
Even walls have ears.
A spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey.
Learning is light, and ignorance is darkness.
Eat bread and salt, but speak the truth.
Appetite comes with eating.
Whom God wishes to punish, He first deprives of reason.
A fish begins to rot from the head.
Do not praise the day until the evening comes.
It is not Shrovetide every day for the cat.
Better a titmouse in the hand than a crane in the sky.
Fear has big eyes.
An old horse does not spoil the furrow.
Chickens are counted in the autumn.
Water does not flow under a lying stone.
For a dear friend, seven versts are not a detour.
Do not renounce the beggar's bag or the prison.
The quieter you go, the farther you will get.
With seven nannies, the child is left without an eye.
One man in the field is no warrior.
Without effort, you cannot pull even a small fish out of a pond.
Do not stir up trouble while trouble is quiet.
Hurrying only makes people laugh.
Tears will not help grief.
What is written with a pen cannot be hewn away with an axe.
You do not bring your own charter to a foreign monastery.
A kind word pleases even a cat.
Small children mean small troubles; big children mean big troubles.
Patience and work will grind everything down.
The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing the work.
A spoon is precious when it comes at dinner time.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
Live for a century, learn for a century — and you will die a fool anyway.
One does not take one's own samovar to Tula.
The first pancake is always a lump.
If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither.
Better a hundred friends than a hundred rubles.
Love is evil: you may fall in love with a goat.
Work is not a wolf; it will not run away into the forest.
Do not say 'hop' until you have jumped over.
Measure seven times, cut once.
Trust, but verify.
The morning is wiser than the evening.
A word is not a sparrow: once it flies out, you cannot catch it.