TWELVE RUSSIAN PROVERBS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1696, 31 August 1904, Page 82 (Supplement)

TWELVE RUSSIAN PROVERBS.

Eat the honey thou canst find, drink the vermouth thou oanst not avoid. If thou sayest snow is dirty, what wilt thou say about chimney soot? Even the stupid man is clever enough to make an excuse. When the nightingale’s voice was praised, the cart-horse began to neigh. "What a pity to lose my splendid boat!” crted the.ferryman as ho and his passengers were drowning. When the avaricious man. has sold his forest he wants to sell the trees. The bees gather wax and honey; the avaricious man asks that they should also prepare his mead. Do not look too long at the holes in your coat, but put patches on them. He who receives too much praise grows donkey’s ears. Spin flax if thou canst not weave silk. Dull silver is better than shining brass. No brass is prouder than that which has lately been coined.