1012 Russian Proverbs / Page 40
781.
The river's reputation ends where the sea begins.782.
The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.783.
The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.784.
The scythe has hit a stone.785.
The scythe ran into a stone.786.
The shovel insults the poker.787.
The slower you go, the farther you will be.788.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.789.
The sober man's secret is the drunkard's speech.790.
The sooner you get in, the sooner you get out.791.
The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.792.
The sun will shine into our yard too.793.
The sythe ran into a stone.794.
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.795.
The tallest tree is rooted in the ground.796.
The tears of strangers are only water.797.
The teeth are not match for the nut.798.
The thief has a chicken's heart -- he sleeps in fear.799.
The thief makes perhaps one mistake; those he stole from made a hundred.800.
The toe of the star-gazer is often stubbed.