More Russian Proverbs

It is good to sleep in a whole skin.... >>

Devils live in quiet pond.... >>

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

The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly.... >>

When roubles falls from heaven there is no sack, when there is a sack ... >>

Other Proverbs

To give is honour, to love is grief.... (Spanish) >>

A fifth wheel to a cart is but an encumbrance.... (Spanish) >>

Little birds may pick a dead lion.... (Spanish) >>

He who gives to the public, gives to no one.... (Spanish) >>

The month loses its own, but not the year.... (Spanish) >>

After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.

- Russian Proverb