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1. Who digs a pit for another, shall fall therein himself
2. The egg is wiser than the hen
3 Long hair, short wit
4. Like bird, like song
5. The sea has eyes, the forest has ears
6. One hand will wash the other (and both get clean)
7. The shoemaker has shabby shoes, the tailor has patched trousers
8. Crying comes from much joy. a tart from a long laugh
9. Don't spit into the well, you're going to drink from it yourself
10. An apple won't fall far from the tree
11. You don't see the beam in your own eye, but you see the mote in another's
12. When you flee a wolf you find a bear in the way
13. A raven won't peck out a raven's eye
14. Like father, like son
15. Good is there, where we are not (bad is there, where we are)
16. A horse with four feet may stumble, what hope for the man with two
17. A rolling stone gathers no moss
18. A lie has short legs
19. Thus the forest answers as it is called
20. Man learns his whole life through
21. The slower you drive, the further you get
22. A mad head gives the feet no peace
23. Smite while the iron is hot
24. A barking dog doesn't bite
25. The asker will not get a blow on the mouth (but the taker will be hit on the hand)
26. With your mouth you make a large town, with your hands not even a fly's nest
27. Work never runs out for the worker, sleep for the sleeper, nor water for the rower
28. Who doesn't put by a kopek, won't get a rouble
29. He who doesn't wish to work, may not eat
30. When the early bird is cleaning its beak, the late is still flapping its wings
31. Good in the village, bad at home
32. That which is on your mind is on your tongue
33. What you learn when young, you'll know when old
34. A dog has pups in a hurry so they're born blind
35. What you seek, you get
36. In at one ear and out at the other
37. Don't praise yourself, let others do it
38. A gift horse is not looked in the mouth
39. A thief visits and leaves the walls, a fire visits and leaves nothing
40. You shut a large gate, but you can't shut a man's mouth
41. It's good to be visiting, better to be at home
42. The full don't believe the hungry
43. A dog knows a dog
44. As the work so the wages
45. Let a beggar into the sauna and he'll want to get on the bench
46. Do good, do bad, you'll find everything ahead of you
47. Measure seven times, cut once
48. You can't carry water in a sieve
49. The eyes fear work, but it's the hands that do it
50. Better that the stomach bursts than good food is left
51. He who has the strength, has the power; he who has the purse, has the right
52. Think first, speak later
53. The pot calls the kettle, both are as black as each other
54. The shoot grows according to the trunk
55. The fellow with feet that always rush, has a mouth that will never hush
56. When the cranes leave there'll be nasty weather; when the swans leave the snow will come
57. A load of hay won't crush a mouse (nor will a man a small woman)
58. What you sow is what will grow
59. A cow gives milk with its mouth, the hen lays eggs with its beak
60. A woman is not a person, a mare is not a horse, a magpie is not a bird, a ruffe is not a fish
61. A fish looks for the deeper, man for the better
62. The dog barks, the wind carries it
63. A large piece tears your mouth (a small one keeps you full)
64. He who wets also dries
65. No need to plough and sow madmen (they grow by themselves)
66. The crop can be seen in the shoot (the horse in the foal, the person in the child)
67. A shock of corn in the field, a fire in the house
68. When two are doing business the third must stay on the side
69. Whence the wind thence the opinion
70. The priest's sack is bottomless
71. The stump is lovely too. when it's decorated
72. St Jacob flings a cold stone into the water
73. Everyone thinks their own are good, even the frog her tadpoles
74. Ill-fortune walks towards men, not towards the wood
75. On St George's day it rumbles in the fisherman's pot
76. No matter how you feed a wolf it always looks to the forest
77. The sprout of a birch won't spring from an alder
78. The good gives even from the little he has. the bad does not even give from his plenty
79. The poor live like wet wood burns
80. Eat a bull today and you still get hungry tomorrow
81. Your elbow is close at hand but you can't bite it
82. Where it is thin, there it breaks
83. The cake is splendid on top, but inside is chaff
84. Age that's past, safe and sound; age to be. you can but guess
85. The crow flies straight, but stays overnight in a forest tree
86. If you knew where you'd fall, you'd put a cushion there
87. There is slight provision from a son-in-law, hollow insurance from a daughter
88. One thought is good, two thoughts even better
89. One spring day is worth a week in autumn
90. Old salt still makes you thirsty (old love doesn't rust)
91. A greased wheel does not squeak
92. Whose horse is in the swamp has his hand in the deepest
93. Water doesn't flow under a massive rock
94. The sea cannot be filled with axes
95. Chase two hares, and you'll catch neither
96. He who seeks finds
97. Summer comes from the east, winter comes trom the east (the end of the world too)
98. Years aren't brothers
99. Own country strawberry, other country bilberry
100. A wolf is fed by its legs
101. A kopek earned at home is worth a ruble earned away
102. The farther you put the nearer you take
103. Teach a child when it still lies crosswise on the bench…
104. A stick has two ends
105. On Boxing day daylight is longer by a cock's step
106. Work praises the one who has done it
107. A fish can't live on dry land
108. As it is played so is it danced
109. It's too late to feed the dog just before hunting
110. You can't put beauty in a pot
111. Five professions, six hungers
112. Misfortune doesn't come with a bell round its neck
113. If at Candlemas the bull drinks from under the eaves, on Lady day the cock…
114. St Martin freezes the ground. St Andrew drives over with a cart. St Simon…
115. The box chooses its lid
116. A new broom sweeps the cottage clean
117. The more you stir shit, the more it stinks
118. Who raises the dog's tail (onto the fence), if not the dog itself
119. A dog earns a dog's wage
120. You can't pick up spilt water
121. The mother puts her breast in the (child's) mouth, but not sense in its head
122. Every beginning is hard, the end is easy
123. When the cat's away, the mice jump about on the table
124. A whore denies honour, a thief denies honesty
125. A woodpecker in the forest is mottled, but a man's life is more so
126. A dog of two houses dies of hunger
127. St [Catherine pisses
128. The horns of a butting ram are always bloody
129. It's better to give than take
130. Better under an old man's beard than under a young man's whip
131. Speech feeds speech
132. Better to be under the son's table than at the head of the daughter's
133. Blood is thicker than water
134. A mother's rod is woollen, a stranger's rod is bloody
135. God has time, the master has bread
136. A single swallow doesn't make a summer
137. No one is born a smith
138. That which is in the wolf's mouth is in the wolfs arse
139. Bread is not baked of sleep
140. Fun for a cat. death for a mouse
141. A child has a child's mind
142. A man's life depends on his horse, the upkeep of the house on his wife
143. A beard is a man's honour (the nose a man's appearance)
144. Give the devil a (little) finger, and he takes the whole hand
145. Don't argue with a rich man, nor try your strength with a strong one
146. Take care of yourself and God will too
147. That which is good, comes slowly
148. Fire from a spark, war from a word
149. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
150. A dog starts swimming only when the water reaches its arse
151. Grass doesn't grow on a main road (and a whore doesn't have children)
152. You can't catch a fish without wetting your feet nor meat without moving
153. What comes with the wind, leaves whistling
154. Work teaches the worker
155. A bark leaves no mark (if you don't let the dog bite)
156. A raven can't be washed white
157. Where the fence is low everyone goes over
158. You can't stick bread together once it's cut
159. Stretch your legs only as far there is a cover
160. There's disease at the tip of a cat's tongue, medicine at the tip of a dog's
161. Like winter, like summer
162. A tree won't fall with one chip
163. Who grows up without discipline dies without honour
164. He who lies also steals
165. An empty barrel resounds (from afar)
166. More than enough in autumn, in spring even chaff is tasty
167. A priest does not preach two sermons to the deaf
168. What's eaten when visiting lasts till the threshold
169. For one waiting, time is long
170. Every bird likes its own nest best
171. Time does not wait for man (if man does not wait for time)
172. Better your own mother's rod than your stepmother's bread and butter
173. More is achieved by wits than by strength
174. One cow with diarrhea will ruin the whole herd
175. As the village treats me, I treat the village
176. Who wants to know a lot, soon gets old
177. An empty sack won't stand up
178. A name won't spoil a man. if a man doesn't spoil the name
179. Don't praise the day before evening, nor a son before he's bearded
180. Self-praise stinks
181. A man returns from across the sea. but never from under the sod
182. You can see gold even in withered grass
183. Don't race a calf (nor argue with women)
184. Warmth won't break bones
185. A friend tells his friend, his friend spreads it round the village
186. Shortage brings a quarrel into the house
187. Man earns, man drinks. God gives to man
188. An old dog never barks in vain
189. Water adds to buttermilk, hops to beer (husks to bread)
190. That which your hand turns, you'll carry on your (own) shoulder
191. The beginning and the end of the cloth take a skilful weaver, even an idiot can…
192. Live in a country as they live, or leave
193. Don't go to the sauna, if you're not itching
194. Better to leave the good food than split your stomach
195. Swamp there, water here (not dry anywhere)
196. What's in the hand is in the mouth
197. Days are in a row. not in a pile
198. Six (weeks) from Christmas to Candlemas, seven from Candlemas to Lady Day (etc.)
199. Buy a horse from a rich house, marry a girl from a poor house
200. Your own mouth is closer than the mouth of the knapsack
201. The wolf will eat even a counted lamb
202. The rich get by with money, the poor with the skin on their backs
203. A good child skips and jumps, a better child stays still
204. Luck for some, summer for all (God for everyone)
205. An arctic bramble while wooed, an apple when wed. a pepper when a wife
206. Scorn a man, not his hat
207. Like man, like sword
208. Who digs up old affairs gets a stick in the eye
209. Every church has its poor and wretched
210. Better to trust in the old
211. There's no smoke without fire
212. In front of your eyes a good friend, behind your back a cut-throat
213. Caution won't capsize a boat, a prop won't overturn a haystack
214. Many things (good and bad) happen to one who works, nothing to one who doesn't
215. Need has no shame
216. Before the wedding a sieveful of money, after the wedding nothing…
217. A wolf has the strength of one man, but the mind of nine, a bear has…
218. Who resembles his kin, resembles not a pig
219. Who endures pain eats sweetmeats / Who tastes all things sweet…
220. Need finds a way
221. As the mother ahead so the cubs behind
222. Snow-drifts at shrovetide mean a good year
223. Don't fly higher than your wings can carry you
224. A meaty tongue cuts a bony neck
225. Save a slice of bread, not work for tomorrow
226. Your own eye is the king
227. Even the lord has a lord, even the wretched have a God
228. To the sleeper a pillow, to the gadabout a threshold
229. The mouse says: they eat my piss and shit, but hate me
230. Better nine brothers-in-law than one sister-in-law1
231. A word binds, a word frees
232. Winter doesn't stay in the sky
233. Breakfast in the mouth, sense into the head
234. Man grows older, disease gets younger
235. Put the church in the middle of the village
236. Fish spawn in a calm bay / The calmer the water the more the insects
237. One sin for the thief, nine for the pursuer
238. Take a man by his word, take a bull by its horn
239. Eating is all right after eating, but not beating after beating
240. A job won't disgrace a man (if he doesn't disgrace the job)
241. You long remember a good deed, a bad one never leaves your mind
242. Whatever's on the roof on Lady day will be on the furrow on May day
243. A man may regret all else but never a young marriage and getting up early
244. Where the wild reindeer wallows there the hair is shed
245. It's the bones that nurture the meat (as long as the bones are healthy)
246. A good bell is heard afar, a bad one even farther
247. Who once burnt his mouth on hot food, blows on his cold milk too
248. The mouth will eat a hundred stacks of grain, but man can live on one
249. Christmas comes jingling by. cakes and sausages under its arm
250. The cat would eat fish too, but it wouldn't wet its claws