RUSSIAN PROVERBS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 326, 1 June 1878, Page 4

RUSSIAN PROVERBS.

Tun wolf asked the goat to dinner but the goat declined. A fox sleeps, bat counts hens in Ins dreams. The. wolf changes Ids hair every year, but remains a wolf. Dog. why do you hark ? To frighten the wolves away. Dog, why do you keep your tail between your legs ? lam afraid of the wolf. Love, fire, and a cough cannot be hid. Slake friends with a bear, but keep hold of the axe. I'.iensure 10 times, you can only cut once. Every thing is bitter to him who bus gall in his mouth. Bread and salt humble oven a robber. A full stomach is deaf to instruction. If you hunt two hares you will catch neither. God is notin haste, but His aim is sure. You may shut the. door on the devil, but ho will enter by the window. Praise not the crop till it is stacked The devil when old becomes a monk. It is not necessary to plough and sow fools—they grow of themselves. With God, go even over the sea’; without Him not over the threshold. Truth is not drowned in water, nor burned in lire. A fool may throw a stone into a pond : it may taka seven sages to poll it out. No bones are broken by a mother's list- Many will give advice; few give help. To whom God gives employ, Ho gives understanding. Whose bread and whose salt 1 eat, His praises I sing. A good conscience is God’s eye. Lies march on rotten legs ; who lies will steal. When you walk, pray once: when you go to *ca, twice ; when yon go to be married, three times.