If you eat someone's cake, you must also eat his lentils.
If you take your tongue to the pawnshop, you can't redeem it later.
Priests and road signs show you the way but don't go with you.
You easily forget the eyes that don't see you any more.
If you fall into a pit, Providence is under no obligation to come and look for you.
You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel.
When someone offends you, you haven't given him enough love.
When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell.
Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
With a mule you have a son, with a son-in-law you only have a mule.
If you spit in the face of a coward he'll tell you that it's raining.
You will never drown where you always take a bath.
The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt.
If you put a razor in your mouth, you will spit blood.
You have a lot of friends if you have money; otherwise there are only strangers.
A forest that has sheltered you, you should not call a patch of scrub.
A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass.
When you spit against the wind you get a dirty beard.
If you don't have a hundred rubles, make sure you have a hundred friends.
When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.
If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
