Proverbs, sayings, sayings. Folk proverbs and sayings for children
Proverbs and sayings are the priceless heritage of our people. They accumulated over thousands of years long before the advent of writing and were passed down orally from generation to generation. This the oldest genre folklore The artistic perfection of proverbs: imagery, depth of content, brightness, richness of language provided them with eternal life in our speech.
Don't think that they aren't being created nowadays. They are created, and sometimes even in our presence. It’s just that sometimes we don’t listen closely to what our interlocutor is saying. Do not ignore wise speeches, write down instructive sayings and generously share them with those who collect them. The proverb is not said for nothing. She is loved, appreciated, remembered, and readily quoted. It cannot be otherwise: she is an adornment of speech, a teacher and a comforter.
The proverbs and sayings collected in the book are intended for schoolchildren different ages. A person grows, his horizons of knowledge expand and life experience. And more and more popular sayings are becoming understandable and close. Otherwise it can not be. They contain the wisdom of the people, the life experience of many, many generations. They teach, advise, warn; praise hard work, honesty, courage, kindness; they make fun of envy, greed, cowardice, laziness; condemn selfishness, evil; encourage diligence, nobility, perseverance.
Our great writers and poets - G. Derzhavin, A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Gogol, N. Nekrasov, L. Tolstoy, A. Blok, S. Yesenin, M. Gorky, F. Dostoevsky, M. Sholokhov and others learned from proverbs the richness, brightness and imagery of language, and used them in their works. It is no coincidence that their books contain many proverbs and sayings. In Pushkin's story " Captain's daughter“Andrei Petrovich Grinev, seeing off his son, bids him farewell: “Farewell, Peter. Serve faithfully to whom you pledge allegiance... and remember the proverb: take care of your dress again, but take care of your honor from a young age.”
It must be said that writers and poets themselves are the creators of proverbs and sayings. Let us remember the sayings of Krylov: “There is no stronger beast than a cat”, “But things are still there”, Pushkin - “But happiness was so possible”, “All ages are submissive to love”, Griboyedov - “ Happy Hours they don’t observe”, “The legend is fresh, but it’s hard to believe.”
The value of folk sayings is undeniable: “A proverb does not speak to the wind.” A proverb calls a proverb, a proverb colors a conversation, and in general: a proverb cannot be avoided, cannot be avoided, for it expresses the meaning and essence human life: “Life is measured not by years, but by labors”, “Living life is not a field to cross.” The proverb teaches a person from the very beginning early age: “There is no friend more reliable than a mother,” “Whoever doesn’t listen to his mother will get into trouble.” Wise thoughts about work and study, which make up the main parting words, will never grow old to the younger generation: “Work feeds a person, but laziness spoils”, “Where there is work, there is happiness”, “Learning is light, and ignorance is darkness”, “Learning and work lead to happiness”, “Live forever, learn forever.” Popular wisdom teaches us to overcome difficulties: “Grieve through grief, but fight with your hands” (i.e., work), “Do not give up in trouble - overcome difficulties.” A significant part of the proverbs contains advice and wishes: “If you don’t know the ford, don’t go into the water,” “Don’t cut the branch you’re sitting on,” “It’s not a problem to make a mistake, but it’s not a problem to get better.” In a word, if the matter is not in dispute, turn to the proverb for advice.
It is no coincidence that in the preface to his collection “Proverbs of the Russian People” - “Naputnoye” - the great Dal wrote that proverbs are a body of folk experimental wisdom, this is the flower of the people's mind, an original article, this is the everyday truth of the people.
The author-compiler sought to collect and include in this collection not only the most widely used proverbs and sayings, but, above all, those that would bring the greatest benefit to schoolchildren in choosing the right one. life path, would lay a solid foundation for a human citizen, a patriot of his homeland.
Compiled by V.D. Sysoev
writer, folklorist,
awarded with medals
Pushkin and Sholokhov
Reviewers: T.A. Ponomareva, Doctor of Philology, Professor
E.A. Ivanov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
There is no life without people.
It is crazy for a living person to think about death.
In a good life the face becomes white, in a bad life it turns black.
In life, everything changes, and even worse things happen.
The century is long - it’s full of everything.
Live forever, hope forever.
Live forever, work forever, and while working, learn forever.
You are tenacious, but you stumble while walking.
Spring and summer, this will also pass.
We all grow under the red sun, in God's dew.
Years will pass like water - you won’t see it.
Day is mother, day is stepmother.
Day after day does not happen, hour after hour does not fall.
As God lives, my soul lives.
Alive living speaks.
A living bone becomes overgrown with meat.
As we live, we chew bread and add salt.
Ermoshka lives: there is a dog and a cat.
Small lives better than big ones.
He lives like Christ in his bosom.
The bear also lives in the forest, unless he is invited to the field.
He doesn’t live sparsely: he buys some bread, has lunch with a neighbor, and runs to the river to drink.
Lives neither for himself nor for people.
Lives neither in a sieve nor in a sieve.
Live and don't worry.
Live with doors to the street.
Live for people, people will live for you.
Live and let others live.
Live and hope.
Live in two ways: until forever and until evening.
Live not as you want, but as you can.
Live uphill, not downhill.
Live not for the past, but for tomorrow.
Live neither shaky, nor shaky, nor on the side.
Live by your own labor, not by other people's goods.
Live by your own mind and by your own labor.
Live more humbly, you will be nicer to everyone.
Live quietly - you won’t see any trouble.
Live quietly and be brave.
Living is alive and thinks.
Alive not without providence.
You live once: not later, but now.
If you are tenacious, you will live to see everything.
Just be resilient and you will live to be a hundred years old.
Life is a science, it teaches through experience.
Life is the sea of life.
Life runs, and the years jump.
A life without a goal is an empty life.
Life abounds.
Life will teach you everything.
Life has cracked.
Life is given for good deeds.
Life is more valuable than all treasures.
Life is different.
Life and trust are lost only once.
Life goes on like clockwork.
To get rid of life - and to beat and beat others.
Life is measured not by years, but by works.
Life loves the one who loves it.
Our life is not stolen.
Life is not a stone: it does not lie in one place, but runs forward.
Life cannot be lived playfully.
Life is striped: it depends on which stripe you fall into.
Living life is not weaving a bast shoe.
Living life is not a field to cross.
Living life is like swimming across the sea.
Life will stretch out - you will get everything.
Life rushes like an arrow irrevocably.
Life is like the moon: sometimes full, sometimes in decline.
Life is like salt water, the more you drink, the more thirsty you become.
He lived and did not grieve about anything; died - and they don’t worry about him.
I would live well, but not enough money.
People lived before us and will live after us.
To live is to serve God.
To live is to make good money, to live hard.
It is good to live in goodness and in beauty even in a dream.
To live and be is to accumulate intelligence.
Live not with money, but with kind people.
Living in harmony with people means not getting into trouble.
Living widely is good, but living already is no worse.
Life - as soon as you get up, you start howling.
There is no need to live on a living.
Life is good and life is not good.
Some people live - chew bread, and sleep - smoke the sky.
You can't get used to a bad life.
As it comes back, so will it respond.
As you live, so is your reputation.
As soon as you start living, life will pass.
The kind of life you live, the kind of glory you will gain.
He who values life runs after life.
He who values life lives without trembling.
Whoever is disingenuous will be crushed by the devil.
1. Appetite comes with eating, and greed - during appetite.
2. Grandmother I was wondering, said in two, Either it’s raining or it’s snowing, or it’s going to happen, or it’s not going to happen.
3. Poverty is not a vice, and misfortune.
4. B healthy body healthy mind - rare luck.
5. Every family has its black sheep, and because of the freak, everything is not pleasing.
6. How lucky Saturday to the drowned man - there is no need to heat the bathhouse.
7. The raven will not peck out the crow's eyes, and he’ll peck it out, but won’t pull it out.
8. Everyone seeks the truth, not everyone does it.
9. Where it’s thin, that’s where it breaks, where it’s thick, it’s layered there.
10. It was smooth on paper, Yes, they forgot about the ravines, and walk along them.
11. Goal like a falcon, and as sharp as an ax.
12. Hunger is not a thing, won't bring you a pie.
13. The grave will correct the hunchback, and the stubborn one is a cudgel.
14. The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shovel: they know what is bitter and what is sweet.
15. Two boots in a pair, yes both left.
16. Two are waiting for the third, and seven do not wait for one.
17. Girlish shame - to the threshold, stepped over and forgot.
18. The master’s work is afraid, and another master of the matter.
19. The road is a spoon for dinner, and there at least under the bench.
20. No law is written for fools, if it is written, then it is not read, if it is read, then it is not understood, if it is understood, then it is not so.
21. We live, we chew bread, and sometimes we add salt.
22. For a beaten person they give two unbeaten ones, it doesn't hurt to take it.
23. If you chase two hares, you won’t get any wild boar you won't catch it.
24. There is fun overseas, but alien, and we have both grief and our own.
25. The hare's legs are carried, The wolf's teeth are fed, the fox's tail is protected.
26. AND it's time, And fun time.
27. And the blind horse carries when a sighted person sits on a cart.
28. A mosquito won’t knock down a horse, until the bear helps.
29. Whoever remembers the old is out of sight, and whoever forgets - both.
30. The hen pecks at the grain, and the whole yard is covered in droppings.
31. Dashing trouble has begun, and the end is near.
32. Dashing trouble initiative - there is a hole, there will be a gap.
33. Young people scold and amuse themselves, and the old people scold and rage.
34. They carry water to (offended) angry people, and they ride the good ones themselves.
35. Don’t open your mouth to someone else’s loaf, get up early and get started.
36. Not everything is Maslenitsa for the cat, there will be a post.
37. The woodpecker is not sad that he cannot sing, the whole forest can already hear him.
38. Neither fish nor meat, neither caftan nor cassock.
39. A new broom sweeps in a new way, and when it breaks, it’s lying under the bench.
40. One in the field is not a warrior, and the traveler.
41. The horses are dying from work, and people are getting stronger.
42. Oats don't make horses roam, but they do not seek good from good.
43. Double-edged sword hits here and there.
44. Repetition is the mother of learning, consolation for fools.
45. Repetition is the mother of learning and a refuge for lazy people.
46. Water does not flow under a lying stone, but under the rolling one - he doesn’t have time.
47. The drunken sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is head over heels.
48. Dust in a column, smoke in a rocker, but the hut is not heated, not swept.
49. Work is not a wolf, it won’t run into the forest, That’s why it’s necessary to do it, damn it.
50. Grow big, but don’t be a noodle, stretch a mile, don't be simple.
51. A fisherman sees a fisherman from afar, that's why he avoids it.
52. A hand washes a hand, yes they both itch.
53. If you get along with a bee, you’ll get some honey, If you get in touch with a beetle, you'll end up in manure.
54. Your eye is a diamond, and the stranger is glass.
55. Seven troubles - one answer, eighth problem - nowhere at all.
56. The bullet is afraid of the brave, and he’ll find a coward in the bushes.
57. Dog in the manger lies there, doesn’t eat on her own and doesn’t give it to the cattle.
58. The dog was eaten choked on their tail.
59. Old age is not a joy, If you sit down, you won’t get up; if you run, you won’t stop..
60. An old horse will not spoil the furrow, and it won’t plow deep.
62. Fear has big eyes, they don't see anything.
63. If you hit one cheek, turn the other one, but don't let yourself get hit.
64. Uma chamber, yes the key is lost.
65. Bread on the table - and the table is a throne, and not a piece of bread - and the table is board.
66. My mouth is full of trouble, and there's nothing to bite.
Now we move on to Russian proverbs, which it would also be nice for each of us to know.
Russian proverbs and sayings, as everyone knows, this is folk wisdom, who came to us from life experience. Now let's look at the most frequently used among them among the people, as well as their interpretations, among other things. For convenience, Russian proverbs and sayings are presented alphabetically.
Russian proverbs and sayings and their meaning
Appetite comes with eating.
The deeper you delve into something, the more you understand and recognize it.
A woman with a cart makes it easier for a mare.
About the departure of an unnecessary person who is not so useful to anything.
Trouble doesn’t walk through the forest, but through people.
Misfortunes with people are the real trouble, and not with what surrounds them.
Misfortunes never come alone.
She will definitely take at least one more with her.
Poverty is not a vice.
You should not judge people for poverty, since it is not their negative quality.
You can’t even catch a fish from a pond without difficulty.
Nothing can be achieved without persistence and effort.
Take care of your dress again, and take care of your honor from a young age.
About norms of behavior in society, etc. And if something is lost or torn, it will no longer be possible to restore it.
God saves man, who save himself.
It is easier for a person who is prudent and careful in his decisions and actions to avoid dangers and unjustified risks.
Free cheese only comes in a mousetrap.
Rarely is anything free given to us without pitfalls, without a catch.
God marks the rogue.
Evil deeds and others negative qualities do not go unpunished.
For a big ship, a long voyage.
A person with great abilities gets great opportunities.
If you suffer for a long time, something will work out.
If you really try in a difficult matter, you can achieve at least something.
Paper will endure anything.
Paper, unlike people, will tolerate any lie, any mistake written on it.
Being a guest is good, but being at home is better.
Home comfort created with your own hands or hands loved one, cannot be replaced by any visit.
In a healthy body healthy mind.
By keeping the body healthy, a person also maintains mental well-being.
Every family has its black sheep.
In any family or team there will always be a person with negative qualities.
In crowded but not mad.
A little inconvenience for everyone is better than a more serious problem for just one.
Still waters run deep.
Quiet and calm-looking people often hide a complex nature.
They don’t go to someone else’s monastery with their own rules.
In someone else's team, you should not behave only according to your own rules and procedures.
We see the speck in someone else's eye, but we don't notice the log in our own.
The mistakes and shortcomings of other people are much more noticeable than your own.
Live forever, learn forever, but you will die a fool.
About the impossibility of knowing everything, even with a constant and persistent acquisition of knowledge.
I picked up the tug - don’t say it’s not strong.
Once you take up a task, bring it to the end, despite the difficulties.
The bird is visible in flight.
About people who, through their deeds and their appearance, show others their nature.
Water wears away stones.
Even minor work, manifested long and persistently, gives good results.
Pound water in a mortar and there will be water.
About doing a stupid thing that does not bring anything useful.
The wolf's legs feed him.
To earn a living, you need to move, be active, and not sit still.
If you are afraid of wolves, do not go into the forest.
If you are afraid of difficulties or dangerous consequences, then you should not start any business.
All diseases are caused by nerves.
Anger, resentment and resentment weaken the immune system, which leads to the formation of diseases. Avoid anything that makes you nervous. Be patient.
Everything will be ground - there will be flour.
Any problem sooner or later turns into a good result.
All is well that ends well.
If the ending of something is good, then there is nothing to worry about.
Everything has its time.
Everything happens at the appointed time, not earlier and not later.
Everyone goes crazy in their own way.
Each person has their own advantages and disadvantages.
Every cricket knows its nest.
Everyone should know their place and not interfere with someone else’s.
Every bast in line.
Everything can be useful, everything can be used; any mistake is blamed.
Where there is anger, there is mercy.
Not everything can be done with just anger; over time, mercy comes.
Where wood is cut, chips fly.
In any business there are always losses, costs...
Needed where was born.
About a place of birth that would not be worth leaving forever.
Where it's thin, that's where it breaks.
What is strong always remains strong, and the weakest link always cracks.
The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing.
It's scary to take on a task until you finally take it on.
The need for invention is cunning.
The need and poverty of a person make him more intelligent and inventive.
Mountain does not converge with mountain, but man does not converge with man.
About people, despite the mountains, who are capable by nature of understanding and meeting halfway.
One grave will correct a hunchback, but a club will correct a stubborn one.
It is difficult and sometimes impossible for a person to get rid of his bad habits.
Prepare a sleigh in the summer and a cart in the winter.
Before you start anything, you must first prepare.
They do not look at a given horse's teeth.
For any gift you are supposed to thank and rejoice at it, they say, take what you give.
Two bears do not live in the same den.
About two rivals vying for leadership. There is no room for two owners in one house.
The master's work is afraid.
The work carried out by the master is completed efficiently and quickly.
Time for business, time for fun.
Most of your time should be spent on study and work, and only partly on entertainment.
For a dear friend and an earring.
For good friend or a loved one, you don’t feel sorry for even the most valuable one.
Debt good turn deserves another.
Good attitude He will definitely return the same to people.
Expensive egg for Easter day.
It's always nice to get what you expect right time, in the right place.
Friendship is friendship, and service is service.
Friendly relations should not influence official ones, however, as well as vice versa.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Only a friend will do everything possible for you to save you in a difficult situation.
There is no law for fools.
Only clever man amenable to rules, fools have no time for them anyway.
A bad example is contagious.
About imitation bad example, the bad deed of another person.
Living life is not a field to cross.
Life is a complicated thing, living it is not so easy.
If you chase two hares, you won’t catch either.
It is impossible to achieve two goals at the same time; everything must be done sequentially.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
By focusing on little things or on the same thing, it is impossible to see the main thing.
The Forbidden fruit is sweet.
Taking someone else’s or forbidden things is much more pleasant than taking your own.
Make a fool pray to God, and he’ll bruise his forehead.
An overly zealous person can harm the business.
It is not worth it.
The money spent on something is not justified by the results obtained.
You can't erase a word from a song.
It is impossible to change or hide something with words without distorting reality.
If only I knew where to fall, I would have laid out straws.
About caution, forethought, so that there is no trouble.
Each sandpiper praises its swamp.
Every person praises the place in which he lives, but everything else is foreign and unusual.
As it comes back, so will it respond.
Any actions towards people around you, good or bad, eventually turn out to be the same.
Whatever you name the ship, that’s how it will sail.
What you set your mind to is what you will get.
You can't spoil porridge with oil.
What is useful and pleasant cannot cause harm, even if there is too much of it.
Fight fire with fire.
To eliminate the results of an action, therefore, by the same means that caused this action.
The end is the crown of the whole thing.
It is important to complete any task.
Finished the job - go for a walk safely.
Once you finish your work, you can rest peacefully without thinking about it.
The horse has four legs and even then stumbles.
Even the most intelligent, dexterous and skillful people can sometimes make mistakes.
A penny saves the ruble.
To accumulate a lot, you must not neglect the little.
The hut is red not in its corners, but in its pies.
The owner of the house is valued not by wealth, but by hospitality.
Who seeks will always find.
When a person really tries to search, he really finds.
Whoever gets up early, God gives him.
He who is not lazy to get up early will have a longer day and a more luxuriant harvest.
Where the needle goes, so goes the thread.
About a person dependent on someone or about close attachment to each other.
Strike while the iron is hot.
While the opportunity allows, it is better to act, otherwise it may not exist later.
The chicken pecks one grain at a time, but is full.
By doing something regularly, even if only a little at a time, you can achieve results.
You can't break through walls with your forehead.
It is impossible to go against the authorities.
They don't hit someone who is lying down.
It is not customary to finish off someone who is injured or in trouble.
A fly in the ointment.
When everything is good, any, even minor, dirty trick can ruin everything.
Better the bitter truth than a sweet lie.
You won't get far with a lie, unlike the truth, no matter what it is.
Better to see once than hear a hundred times.
You should not believe words, you should only look at actions.
Better late than never.
It is better to do something at least someday than not to do it at all.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
It is better to have something small and quite accessible than something large and difficult to achieve.
Love for all ages.
A person has the ability to fall in love at absolutely any age.
If you like to ride, you also like to carry a sled.
To achieve something in your life, make an effort.
The less you know the better you sleep.
The more you know, the more excitement and worry there is.
The world is not without good people.
There will always be generous people with a desire to help in someone else's troubles.
Young is green.
Young people, unlike adults, are not mature enough in their knowledge.
Silent means consent.
Silence is like an assumption of an affirmative answer.
Moscow was not built in a day.
Everything complex and perfect is never given at once, only with a gain of experience.
In the absence of fish, cancer is a fish.
In the absence of something better, something worse may come in handy.
Trust in God, and don’t make a mistake yourself.
You should not rely solely on God when doing anything. Do everything yourself, and God only supports.
Every man to his own taste.
Tastes and preferences different people may differ from each other.
You can't please everyone.
You can't please everyone, no matter what you do. Even if you are an angel, someone may not like the rustling of your wings.
Simplicity is enough for every wise man.
No matter how wise and perspicacious a person is, he can be deceived.
The animal runs towards the catcher.
It is easier for those who are brave, persistent, and stubborn to achieve anything they want.
There is no trial.
About the humble acceptance of the absence of something or the refusal of a request.
They carry water to the offended.
A person is forced to be able to forgive. A offended person doesn't look interesting to anyone.
Hope dies last.
Even with disappointment or complete failure, there is still hope for the best.
Gruzdev called himself get in the body.
If you boast or promise to do something, do it.
You won't be nice by force.
No one can be forced to love against their will.
It is not God who burns the pots.
Each person is doomed to cope with his tasks himself, and not rely only on God alone.
Don't sit in your own sleigh.
Equivalent to the expression “Mind your own business.”
Not everything is Maslenitsa, there is also Lent.
Life is not always a holiday. It comes in changeable stripes.
All that glitters is not gold.
Any thing or entity, no matter how beautiful it looks, is not defined only by external signs. The internal signs are more important.
If you don't know the ford, don't go into the water.
Before you do anything, you should know how it is done.
Don't have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.
Money disappears the first time you go to the store, but friends remain forever.
It is not the place that makes the person, but the person the place.
A person with a bad position can be an excellent worker, but with a good position - vice versa.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
While there is an opportunity, it is better to carry out your plans right away, in order to avoid acquiring laziness and regret.
Don't spit in the well - you'll need some water to drink.
You should not spoil your relationship with a person, no matter what he is. But in the future it can turn out to be very useful, and even save a life.
Not caught - not a thief, not caught - not cheated.
A person is not guilty of an offense until proven guilty.
Don't dig a hole for someone else - you yourself will fall into it.
A person who does bad things to another person suffers himself, having encountered the consequences of his own actions.
Don't cut the branch you're sitting on.
Don’t do stupid things and evil, because you yourself can choke on the same thing.
The devil is not as scary as he is painted.
An indication of exaggeration of the significance of any negative phenomenon.
Man does not live by bread alone.
A person not only has material qualities, but also spiritual.
There is no smoke without fire.
Nothing happens just like that, for example, there is no gossip without reason.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
For any difficult situation You can always extract something pleasant and useful.
Burnt on milk - blows on the water.
Having made a mistake once, in the future you become more careful and prudent.
There is safety in numbers.
It is more difficult to withstand something alone, to win a fight, than with someone else.
One head is good, but two are even better.
Two people will be able to solve any problem better and faster, unlike one.
One swallow does not make spring.
The very first and only sign of a phenomenon is not the phenomenon itself.
From love to hate one step.
It won't be difficult to anger a person and make him hate you.
No one is immune from the event.
No matter how hard you try to prevent trouble, it can still happen.
It's a double-edged sword.
For every desired action there is a reaction.
The first pancake is lumpy.
Anything doesn't always work out really well the first time.
Stretch your legs along the clothes.
About living according to your means, income, in accordance with your capabilities.
They meet you by their clothes, they see them off by their intelligence.
A meeting with a person is valued according to external signs, and parting is valued according to internal, mental ones.
Even a sword does not cut a guilty head.
Those who voluntarily admit their guilt should not be seriously punished.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
The more you repeat, the better you know.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
If you do nothing, nothing will come of it.
Until the thunder strikes, the man will not cross himself.
A person will drag out his illness or other problem until the last moment, until it resolves completely.
Trying is not torture, and demand is not a problem.
There is nothing stopping you from at least trying to do something rather than not doing it at all.
After a fight they don’t wave their fists.
It is unacceptable to change anything when it is too late.
If you hurry, you will make people laugh.
Any task should be done calmly, slowly, in order to avoid a funny situation.
Forewarned is forearmed.
What you are warned about, you are ready for.
When trouble comes, open the gate.
Misfortune never comes alone. Therefore, you need to be more careful and prepared for anything.
The frightened crow is afraid of the bush.
If a person is truly scared, he will be afraid of everything that surrounds him.
For a drunk, the sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to his ears.
A drunk person is drawn to actions that he would never dare to do if he were sober.
Once a year the stick shoots.
Very rarely, but still the impossible may well become possible.
One born to crawl cannot fly.
If a person is born a fool, then he will die a fool.
Fish looks for where it is deeper, and man looks for where it is better.
About people who want better devices for their lives.
The fish rots from the head.
If the government is bad, so will its subordinates.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Close people easily find a common language.
To live with wolves is to howl like a wolf.
When joining any community, life according to their principles is not excluded.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The human principle is to forget someone with whom you do not see or communicate.
Whoever you hang out with, that's how you'll gain.
Whom you communicate with, make friends with, you adopt his views, habits, etc.
With your loved one and in the hut is paradise.
It’s good to be with your loved one anywhere and under any conditions.
The light did not converge like a wedge.
If everything is good at a certain facility, you shouldn’t make do with it alone.
Our people - we will be numbered.
Close people are doomed to help each other without asking for anything in return.
I can't bear my own burden.
What you personally receive is easier to bear, unlike the tolerability of someone else’s.
Your shirt is closer to your body.
Your own interests are more important than the interests of other people.
A holy place is never empty.
If a good place becomes empty and is immediately occupied by someone else.
Seven do not wait for one.
They won’t wait for one latecomer when everyone is already gathered and ready for business.
Seven times measure cut once.
Before you do anything, you must first think carefully, provide for everything, in order to avoid an accident.
Lawless Heart.
About the inability to control your feelings.
No matter how much you feed the wolf, he still looks into the forest.
It is impossible to change the natural instincts and inclinations of another person.
Soon the fairy tale is told, but not soon the deed is done.
About foreshadowing something, like in a fairy tale, it’s quick and easy, but in reality it’s more complicated.
Miser pays twice.
Unlike buying a cheap thing and then buying an expensive one because the cheap one breaks down soon, it is better to immediately buy an expensive and high-quality thing for a long time.
Tears of sorrow will not help.
Don't be discouraged if you can get rid of grief. And if the problem is inevitable, there is no point in shedding tears.
The word is not a sparrow; if it flies out, you won’t catch it.
Once you find yourself in an awkward situation and say a bad word, it is impossible to go back.
The word is silver, silence is gold.
It is a matter of honor to say something useful, but it is better to remain silent about useless and empty chatter.
The earth is full of rumors.
Man knows secret information thanks to rumors.
A dog can be a biter from a dog's life.
An unkind, aggressive person often becomes like this due to the conditions of his life: from a lack of love, care from people around him, frequent misfortunes, etc.
He ate the dog and choked on his tail.
It is impossible to do anything big without tripping over a small thing.
There are no boundaries for perfection.
No matter how hard you try to improve the situation, you can always do better.
Nightingales are not fed fables.
Talking cannot feed those who are hungry. He should be offered food.
An old bird is not caught with chaff.
Experienced person It’s hard to outwit something, to lead you into a dead end.
An old friend is better than two new ones.
Old, proven, long-familiar, predictable is much more reliable, as opposed to new, unfamiliar, not yet tested by everyday situations.
The well-fed cannot understand the hungry.
The difficulty of one is incomprehensible to another until he stoops to this difficulty himself.
Patience and a little effort.
Patience and perseverance in work will overcome all obstacles.
Be patient, Cossack - you will become an ataman!
Encouragement to become a patient person when any difficulty is nothing.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
How more people When they take on one task, the less attention is paid to it.
Fear has big eyes.
About fearful people who perceive everything small and insignificant as large and terrible.
An agreement (agreement) is more valuable than money.
A respectful contract, unlike money, can be lost forever. Its terms and conditions must be strictly adhered to.
A drowning man clutches at a straw.
A person in trouble is ready to do anything to save himself. Even if the method does not give much results.
The morning is wiser than the evening.
In the morning, decisions are made more effectively, as opposed to a tired evening.
Learning is light and ignorance is darkness.
Learning is the path to knowledge, achievements, success. And lack of learning is the cause of developmental retardation and lack of culture.
Well, where we do not.
Often a person underestimates where he is now and overestimates the features of the place where he has not yet been.
The bad (bad) grass is out of the field.
You should get rid of anything harmful or unnecessary so that things go faster.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
The success of any business can only be said if it has a visible result.
Man is the architect of his own happiness.
To be happy, you need to do something, and not wait until it comes on its own.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
You should not be one hundred percent sure of the success of an action or enterprise that has not yet taken place.
Whatever you boast about, you will be left without.
A person who talks a lot about his happiness remains without it.
What the hell is not joking (while God sleeps).
Anything can happen, anything can happen.
What we have, we don’t keep, and when we lose it, we cry.
True Value something or someone is noticed when we are deprived of it.
What is written with a pen cannot be cut down with an axe.
What is written, once it has become known, cannot be changed.
What goes around comes around.
Good or evil done by someone returns over time.
To get to know a person, you have to eat a ton of salt with him.
To get to know a person well, you need to live with him for a long time, overcoming various difficulties in life with him.
Someone else's soul is darkness.
No matter how well we know a person, his thoughts will always be a mystery. And a person’s external appearance is not always a reflection of his soul.
I’ll take away someone else’s trouble with my hands, but I won’t apply my mind to mine.
Other people's troubles seem more solvable, easier, unlike your own.
Murder will out.
The secret always becomes clear. And the lie will definitely come out over time.
Cabbage soup and porridge are our food.
About the habit of eating simple food
The apple never falls far from the tree.
What parents are like, their children have the same mentality.
The language will take you to Kyiv.
By asking people you can get anywhere.
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
An inexperienced person can teach little to an experienced one.
Proverbs and sayings are a real storehouse of wisdom of the Russian people, which has been tested not only by many centuries, history, but also by ordinary life through the experience of our ancestors, passed down from generation to generation. One proverb or saying can simultaneously express sadness with joy, anger with grief, hatred with love, and, of course, humor with sarcasm. Proverbs and sayings were able to summarize a wide range of phenomena of reality surrounding us, helping to understand the history of the people. That is why a literate person who loves his country always listens and reads... After all, both in texts and in colloquial speech, these linguistic phenomena play a special role: They enhance expressiveness, Make the content deeper, Give spice, At the same time they help to find the way to the reader’s heart .
Proverb, is that you?
People don’t like terms, but they are the ones that help us understand a phenomenon and look inside it!
Proverb is a rhythmic and short figurative saying that is stable in speech. This is a national treasure that contains judgment or advice on a certain situation.
Indeed, the proverb is one of the most curious folklore genres, which, although studied by linguists, linguists, and philologists, remains a mystery, since it is not a saying of one person, but a folk assessment that can best reflect the spiritual image, human aspirations with ideals , demonstrate visual judgments about all phenomena. What is not accepted by the majority simply will not take root. The proverb lives and can live only in speech, acquiring completeness and clear meaning in it. We can say with absolute certainty that sayings and proverbs have supported the way of life for centuries, strengthened faith in the future, becoming a kind of commandments, on the basis of which life was regulated ordinary people. A proverb may not always be edifying, but it is always instructive! It is necessary to draw a conclusion from them, regardless of how old you are or what social status you currently occupy.
Proverb, sister of the proverb?
Sometimes we simply don’t understand what the differences are between proverbs and sayings, since they are traditionally put on the same page. To figure it out, and this is necessary, we suggest that you get to know the proverb better and understand what it is.
Proverb is a figurative expression that is also widespread, and it aptly and succinctly defines a phenomenon in life.
If you compare a saying with a proverb, then there is no teaching in it. Only a figurative, sometimes metaphorical expression. For example, “easy on the face” or “careless.” No final judgments, but what a great opportunity for language – to obtain a means of conveying an emotional-expressive assessment. In other words, the proverb was “born” to express the feelings of the person who uses it. Of course, we cannot say that proverbs and sayings are the same, since they have obvious differences. The proverb has two important features: Completeness, Didactic content.
As for the saying, its properties that you will definitely notice after studying the content in this section: Inferences are incomplete, Emotional, Lack of instructiveness.
However, sometimes it is quite difficult to distinguish “who is who”, since the genres are still adjacent, and sayings border on proverbs. There are often cases when, by adding a word to a saying, a proverb is obtained, and sometimes an ordinary inversion (rearrangement of words) is sufficient. As for oral speech, then here quite often sayings are transformed into proverbs, and proverbs - on the contrary, into sayings. The people themselves say: “A saying is a flower, a proverb is a berry” (this, by the way, is a proverb), demonstrating that the saying has some incompleteness. Therefore, the proverb, having formalized the thought completely, becomes a berry.
Where did proverbs and sayings come to us from?
Oh, how difficult it is to say since when sayings and proverbs began to be “circulated” among the people, when these short sayings and apt definitions became entrenched in the minds, which make it possible to make speech richer and simpler at the same time. With all this, we can say with absolute confidence that this happened a long time ago, in ancient times, accompanying the people throughout their entire development since then. A saying could develop into a proverb or saying only when it was 100% consistent with the way of life and thoughts of the mass of people, and then exist for thousands of years. Behind every phrase stands the centuries-old authority of generations of our ancestors. You need to understand that the people who created proverbs and sayings for the most part were illiterate; they simply did not have another method to summarize their experience and knowledge. As a result, proverbs and sayings very accurately characterize the mentality, clearly demonstrating such parameters as: National traits, As already noted, lifestyle, Moral standards.
Is it any wonder that they are often contradictory? After the baptism of Rus', pagan elements began to be surprisingly intertwined with phenomena in proverbs and sayings new faith. Proverbs and sayings that describe interaction with feudal lords also very clearly confirm the stated idea. peasant labor, dependence on the weather, the patriarchal way of life, and so on.
Studying proverbs and sayings means understanding life
In no case should we neglect the “world” of these linguistic phenomena, because it reflects not only reflections with the external environment, but also in privacy, in family. For every occasion there is a saying or proverb, whether it is about a wedding, theft, illness... However, we must not forget that there is a special “squad” of proverbs and sayings that migrated to us from outstanding literary works. Griboyedov is a leader in this direction. Just look at his “Happy Hours Don’t Watch.” And how many such expressions were created by Krylov, who is always in his creative activity relied on colloquial language, often using sayings and proverbs in fables. True, this direction is usually referred to as aphorisms, and for them there is a whole section on our website, which we also recommend that you get acquainted with it in order to be more educated, to understand the world in which we live, to make your speech diverse, colorful and expressive!
“Proverbs and sayings are both useful and dangerous,
like any other stereotypes"
Quick explanation
Proverb- this is a whole sentence with meaning, and proverb- only beautiful phrase or phrase. This is the main feature that distinguishes proverbs from sayings.
A proverb contains a moral, a sign, a warning, or an instruction. A saying is simply an eloquent expression that can be easily replaced with other words.
Examples
Proverbs and sayings are often confused
On the Internet they often write “Proverbs and sayings”, and at the same time they mean only proverbs.
Most often, sites provide a list of “Proverbs and sayings”, which in fact only contain proverbs. Very rarely, some sayings may appear in such lists. It is not uncommon to find a list of proverbs entitled as a list of sayings.
How not to confuse the words of proverbs and sayings?
To remember not to confuse these concepts with each other, use the following tips:
1. There is a phrase “Proverbs and sayings”.
Word " proverbs"always comes first, since a proverb is whole complete sentence, with morals and deep meaning.
And the word " sayings always in second place because it just a beautiful and symbolic phrase, unable to act as an independent proposal.
2. Read individual articles about and sayings on this site. Feel the difference between them.
3. You can always go to this page to once again remember the differences between proverbs and sayings.
Proverb - complete sentence
A proverb is a short sentence containing folk wisdom. Spelled simple vernacular, often has rhyme and rhythm.
Examples
You can’t even catch a fish from a pond without difficulty.
An empty barrel rattles louder.
If you don't know the ford, don't go into the water.
If you chase two hares, you won’t catch either.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Small spool but precious.
A saying is a symbolic phrase or phrase
A proverb is an established phrase or phrase, figurative expression, metaphor. Not used on its own.
Proverbs are used in sentences to give a bright artistic color to facts, things and situations.
Examples of sayings
“to put a pig” (to play a dirty trick)
“disservice” (help that turns into harm)
“to be left with the nose” (to be deceived)
"stay at a broken trough"(to lose something due to stupid behavior)
“when the cancer whistles on the mountain” (never)
“wedding general” (an important person who is of no actual use)
Examples of using sayings in sentences
I'll give you this car when the cancer on the mountain whistles.
Illegally dismissed employee screwed us over.
Basilio the cat and Alice the fox left Pinocchio with a nose.
Our new director walks around looking important, is interested in every nonsense, pretends that he understands something, and at the same time asks the most stupid questions, in short - another wedding general.
To obtain more complete knowledge about proverbs and sayings, the following articles on our website are recommended.
