1012 Russian Proverbs / Page 12
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Do not cut the bough you are sitting on.222.
Do not dig a hole for somebody else; you yourself will fall into it.223.
Do not look at gift horse's mouth.224.
Do not look at gift hourse's mouth.225.
Do not look for further good from good.226.
Do not look for good from good.227.
Do not make an elephant out of a fly.228.
Do not make jokes that cost more than a ruble.229.
Do not make me kiss, and you will not make me sin.230.
Do not measure others by your own yardstick.231.
Do not plant a tree with its root upward.232.
Do not play with fire - you will burn yourself.233.
Do not praise yourself when going of to battle going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.234.
Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by.235.
Do not spit into a well—it may be useful to drink water.236.
Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.237.
Do not spit into the well you may have to drink of.238.
Do not teach a learned person.239.
Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science.240.
Don't be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail.