1012 Russian Proverbs / Page 21
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If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth.402.
If everyone gives one thread, the poor man will have a shirt.403.
If everyone were a gentleman, who would make the mills work?404.
If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead.405.
If God sends you meal, the devil takes the sack.406.
If Jesus Christ comes to help me, I laugh at the angels.407.
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.408.
If Moscow is the heart of Russia and St. Petersburg is its head, then Kiev is its mother.409.
If mushrooms grew in the mouth, that would be not mouth but kitchen garden.410.
If not by washing, then by rolling.411.
If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean.412.
If rubles fell from heaven the poor would have no bag.413.
If the child does not cry, the mother won't know what it wants.414.
If the collective farm is wealthy, the farmer is happy.415.
If the devil catch a man idle he'll set him at work.416.
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.417.
If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.418.
If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it.419.
If the peasant doesn't hear the thunder he won't make the sign of the cross.420.
If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf.