If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut.
If you don't have a hundred rubles, make sure you have a hundred friends.
If you flatter the mother, you will embrace the daughter.
If you talk to an official you must talk rubles.
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.
If you want to be a hundred you must start young.
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
If your heart is a rose, then your mouth will speak perfumed words.
In Russia every day is of thirty hours.
In a deal there are two fools: the one who asks too much and the one who asks too little.
In a fight the rich man tries to save his face, the poor man his coat.
In a rickety stable the cow produces no milk.
In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation.
In the lake of lies there are many dead fish.
Invite a peasant to your table and he'll put his feet on it.
It is bread that keeps one warm, not fur.
It is easier to bear a child once a year than to shave every day.
It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes.
It is good to pay with other people's money.
It is never winter in the land of hope.
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
