1012 Russian Proverbs / Page 47
921. When wood is chopped, woodchips will fly.
922. When you are in a pack of hounds, you either bark or wag your tail.
923. When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.
924. When you meet a man judge him by his clothes, when you leave a man judge him by his heart.
925. When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
926. Where necessity speaks it demands.
927. Where something is thin, that's where it tears.
928. Where you saw wood, there the sawdust will fall.
929. Whether an owl with a stump, or a stump with an owl.
930. Whether you hit an owl with a stump, or a stump with an owl.
931. Who drinks till bottom, lives without mind.
932. Who falls in the water will hold on to the foam to save himself.
933. Who have not been there - he will be, who have been - will not forget.
934. Who is brave eats two.
935. Who lives in exile finds that spring has no charm.
936. Who owns the bank owns the fish.
937. Who reminds old, will be deprived of his eye.
938. Who talks little hears better.
939. Who wants heat, must endure the smoke.
940. Who wasn't [out] in the sea, didn't pray to God.