"Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing," said the pig to the horse.
'Tis a hard winter when one wolf eats another.
A bachelor is never sent as a go-between.
A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls.
A bad peace is better than a good quarrel.
A boat stands firmer with two anchors.
A cat always knows whose meat it eats.
A cross-eyed Tsar, one-eyed ministers, blind subjects.
A day is long, but a lifetime is short.
A drop hollows out a stone.
A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs.
A field in common is always ravaged by bears.
A fool is not afraid to lose his mind.
A friendly word is like a spring day.
A girl never grows into a lady.
A golden handshake convinces even the most skeptical judge.
A good wife and a wholesome cabbage soup, what more could you want?
A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one.
A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge steel.
A judge and a stomach do their asking in silence.
A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.