Proverbs and sayings are both useful and dangerous,
like any other stereotypes"
Proverb is a whole sentence with meaning, and proverb- just a beautiful phrase or phrase. This is the main feature that distinguishes proverbs from sayings.
The proverb contains moralizing, omen, warning or instruction. A saying is just an eloquent expression that can be easily replaced by other words.
On the Internet, they very often write "Proverbs and sayings", and at the same time they mean only proverbs.
Most often, sites give a list of "Proverbs and Sayings", which actually contains only proverbs. Very rarely, some sayings may come across in such lists. It is not uncommon to find a list of proverbs titled as a list of 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, because a proverb is complete sentence, with morality and deep meaning.
And the word " sayings always in second place because it is 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 remember once again the differences between proverbs and sayings.
A proverb is a short sentence containing folk wisdom. It is written in simple folk language, often has rhyme and rhythm.
You can't even catch a fish from a pond without effort.
An empty barrel rattles louder.
Not knowing the ford, do not poke your head into the water.
If you chase two hares, you won't catch one.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Small spool but precious.
A proverb is a well-established phrase or phrase, a figurative expression, a metaphor. Not used on its own.
Sayings are used in sentences to give a bright artistic coloring to facts, things and situations.
"to put a pig" (to mischief)
"a disservice" (help turning to harm)
"to stay with the nose" (to be deceived)
"stay at the broken trough» (to lose something due to stupid behavior)
"when cancer on the mountain whistles" (never)
"wedding general" (important person from whom there is no actual sense)
I will give you this car when cancer on the mountain whistles.
Illegally dismissed employee gave us a pig.
Basilio the cat and Alice the fox left Pinocchio with a nose.
Our new director walks around important, is interested in every nonsense, pretends to understand something, and at the same time asks the most stupid questions, in short - another wedding general.
For more complete knowledge of proverbs and sayings, the following articles on our website are recommended.
Really a treasure trove proverbs in Russian collected by Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl back in 1862. In the two-volume collection of the Russian writer and linguist, all sayings are divided by topic. One of the most extensive is "Language-Speech". Since the speech of the Russian people became the main source of material, it can be said with confidence that all proverbs from this thematic group - about Russian. We list the most interesting and capacious of them:
Whoever storms with his tongue will not fight much.
Body language anchor. The tongue speaks to God.
The tongue is small, but it owns the whole body.
The language is small, it turns over a great man.
Small language - shakes mountains. With a tongue like a stag.
Language is a banner, leads a squad. Language turns kingdoms.
Language gives a message to language.
The tongue gives the answer to the tongue, but the head is smart.
The tongue feeds the head.
The tongue feeds bread and spoils business.
To what extent the language does not agree! Tongue, adversary, my destroyer!
The language is the same, both on weekdays and on holidays.
Language will bring to Kyiv.
God gave two ears and one tongue.
Own language, own and speaking (pronunciation, pronunciation).
Weaves with his tongue, that with bobbins. Weaving lace with the tongue.
Don't rush with your tongue, hurry up with your deeds.
Do not hurry with your tongue, but do not be lazy in deeds.
The tongue turns, I want to speak.
Don't be afraid of the knife, tongue. The razor scratches, but the word cuts.
You can't keep up with your tongue barefoot.
Language ahead of the mind prowling.
The tongue is soft: whatever it wants, it murmurs (what it doesn’t want, it murmurs).
Without tongue and dumb bell.
It is better to stumble with your foot than with your tongue.
You can’t tell with your tongue, and you can’t spread it with your fingers.
Talk with your tongue, but do not let your hands free!
With your tongue, as you like, but do not stir with your hands.
My tongue is my enemy. Your tongue is the first adversary.
It beats with its tongue (baba), which beats with a woolly string.
(from other collections of Russian folk proverbs)
Without the Russian language, you can’t put together a boot.
The Russian language is the strength of the weak!
Great and mighty is the Russian language.
Without the Russian language, you will not overcome the most dangerous enemy.
Do not go through the enemy with a spear, go through with a good Russian language.
The tongue is small, but it owns the whole body.
Word is silver, silence is gold.
A sharp word pierces the heart.
The tongue speaks to God.
Language is a banner, leads a squad. Language turns kingdoms.
Language gives a message to language.
One says - red, two say - colorful.
Says how the river flows.
Speech is red by listening (and conversation by humility).
I sit by the stove and listen to people's speeches.
Know a lot, but buy a little! It is not appropriate to beat a lot.
Than to lie, it is better to scratch silently.
We all say, but not everything comes out as spoken.
Everything soon affects, but not everything is soon done.
You can't keep up with the wind in the field; for every word you will not turn.
Silence, and the matter does not end. I don't understand your hint.
Do not go through with a spear, go through with your tongue!
A living word is more precious than a dead letter.
Good speech is good to listen to. Red speech is red and listen.
Let's sit in a row and talk (and reinterpret) okay.
And a small conversation, but honestly.
The field is red with millet, and the conversation is with the mind.
To talk to you, to get drunk on honey.
With your lips and honey to drink.
What amuses someone, he talks about it.
Whatever hurts, he talks about it.
There is, like, sweet as honey; but no, a word - as wormwood is bitter.
He sits like a candle burns, says that he gives with a ruble.
Short speeches and nothing to listen to (nothing).
The word is not a sparrow: it will fly out - you will not catch it.
You will keep the horse on the reins, but you will not turn back the words from the tongue.
Having fired, you will not catch the bullet, and having said the word, you will not catch it.
By the way, keep silent, what a big word to say.
From friendly words, the tongue will not wither.
An affectionate word breaks a bone.
There is a lot of Melev, but there is no grinding (that is, there is no sense in speeches).
For a word, it will not climb into your pocket.
He spoke from three boxes. It would babble, but not doze.
You speak according to advice (secretly, advicefully), and it will come out all over the world.
The pig will tell the hog, and the hog will tell the whole city.
If the mother hen knew, the neighbor would also know.
Rechist, like our Feklist. More flirtatious (noisier) than a hen.
If one speaks, then two look and two listen (that is, two eyes, two ears and one mouth).
No matter how much you interpret, but just do not reinterpret.
"The genius, spirit and character of the people is manifested in its proverbs" (F. Bacon)
Folk proverbs and sayings are part of the spiritual heritage that we inherited from our ancestors. This is truly a golden storehouse of folk wisdom accumulated over many centuries. They cover almost all aspects of our life, so it is very useful to introduce your baby to proverbs and sayings from early childhood, memorize , to tell their meaning, where and in what cases they are used, learn to resort to them at every opportunity.
RUSSIAN FOLK PROVERBS AND SAYINGS.
To live life is not a field to cross.
Every Egor has a saying.
Proverb-flower, proverb-berry.
Not knowing the ford, do not poke your head into the water.
Life is given for good deeds.
Red speech proverb.
Trust in God, but don't make a mistake yourself.
A house is not built without corners, speech is not spoken without a proverb.
Wet rain is not afraid.
Small, but remote.
On someone else's side, I'm happy with my little funnel.
Whoever burns himself in milk, he blows into the water.
A cowardly bunny and a stump - a wolf.
There would be dinner, but the spoon is found.
From time immemorial, the book raises a person.
Own land and in a handful is sweet.
Ah yes oh will not give help.
Falsely acquired for the future will not work.
Once he lied, but for a century he became a liar.
The mother swings high and hits gently, the stepmother swings low and hits painfully.
On the native side and the pebble is familiar.
It is better to forgive ten guilty people than to execute one innocent.
Where the pine has grown, there it is red.
It is bad for him who does no good to anyone.
Wormwood does not grow without a root.
The sting is sharp, and the tongue is sharper.
Without a friend in the heart of a blizzard.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
There is no friend, so look for, but there is, so take care.
A liar is always an unfaithful friend, he will deceive you around.
The native side is the mother, the alien side is the stepmother.
Where to live, there to be known.
Meet by clothes, and see off by mind.
Being a guest is good, but being at home is better.
That bird is stupid, which does not like its nest.
To go on a visit - it is necessary to drive to yourself.
Trouble is trouble, and food is food.
On the other side, and the spring is not red.
Every man is the blacksmith of his own happiness.
On the other side, even the falcon is called a crow.
God will soak, God will dry.
Teach children without people.
A storm hits a tall tree.
Altyn silver does not break the ribs.
You don't get rich by cheating, you get poorer.
You go for a day, take bread for a week.
If you like to ride - love to carry sleds.
What is the spin, such is the shirt on it.
He destroys himself who does not love others.
It is better to be silent than to lie.
If you don't know how to sew with gold, then strike with a hammer.
The hand of the giver will not fail.
If only he knew where he fell, he spread straws here.
The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing.
Summer works for winter, and winter works for summer.
Who indulges children, then sheds a tear.
For a scientist they give three unscientists, and even then they don’t take it.
In crowded but not mad.
What goes around comes around.
Prepare the sleigh in summer and the cart in winter.
Who knows a lot, much is asked.
Get up early, understand sensibly, perform diligently.
Perhaps they won’t bring it to good somehow.
The work of the master is afraid.
Play, play, but know the matter.
Finished the job - walk boldly.
You can't even pull a fish out of a pond without difficulty.
The envious eye sees far.
Health can not be bought - his mind gives.
Business time, fun hour.
The day is long until the evening, if there is nothing to do.
Who does not work shall not eat.
In the summer you work up - in the winter you get hungry.
Skillful hands do not know boredom.
Patience and a little effort.
You love to ride, love to carry sleds.
There will be a day - there will be food.
Labor feeds a person, but laziness spoils.
Take it together, it won't be heavy.
Beware of troubles while they are not.
The craft does not ask to drink and eat, but feeds itself.
The snow is white, but they trample underfoot, the poppy is black, and people eat.
Although the child is crooked, the father-mother is cute.
Not an ax amuses, but a carpenter.
Do not sit idly by, and there will be no boredom.
Boring day until evening, if there is nothing to do. 
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Without work to live only to smoke the sky.
Postpone idleness, but do not postpone business.
Don't hurry with your tongue, hurry with your deeds.
Handle every task skillfully.
There would be a hunt - work will go well.
They are greeted by the dress, escorted by the mind.
Learning to read and write is always useful.
And the strength of the mind is inferior.
They sent a smart one - say one word, say three fools, and go after him yourself.
A smart head has a hundred hands.
Mind is good, but two is better.
You can't live without the sun, you can't live without the sweet.
As is the mind, so are the speeches.
In a smart conversation, gain your mind, lose your mind in a stupid one.
Know more and say less.
The stupid one turns sour, but the smart one will provide everything.
The bird is red in singing, and the man in learning.
An unlearned person is like an unsharpened axe.
The dunno lies, and the know-it-all runs far.
If you want to eat kalachi, don't sit on the stove.
From the window of the whole world you can not look back. 
Learning is light and ignorance is darkness.
The alphabet is science, and the guys are beech.
An old friend is better than two new ones.
A friend argues, and an enemy agrees.
Do not recognize a friend in three days, recognize in three years.
A friend and brother is a great thing: you won’t get it soon.
I was with a friend, I drank water - sweeter than honey.
There is no friend, so look for, but you will find, so take care.
Make new friends, but don't lose old ones.
For a friend, seven miles is not a suburb.
An orphan without a friend, a family man with a friend.
Seven do not wait for one.
A horse is known in grief, and a friend in trouble.
When the sun is warm, when the mother is good.
There is no friend like a mother.
What is the treasure, if the family is in harmony.
Brotherly love is better than stone walls.
The bird is glad of spring, and the baby of the mother.
The children's hut is fun.
The whole family is together, and the soul is in place.
Maternal affection knows no end.
Maternal anger is like spring snow: and a lot of it falls, but it will soon melt.
The dear child has many names.
Grandmother - only one grandfather is not a grandson.
Good daughter Annushka, if mother and grandmother praise
From the same oven, but the rolls are not the same.
And a mad sheep will be born from a good father.
The bird is in the nest until autumn, and the children are in the house until the age.
From a bad seed do not expect a good tribe.
Capricious in childhood, ugly in years.
All children are equal - both boys and girls.
The children's hut is fun.
A painting by the artist Pieter Brueghel (1525/30–1569) titled “Sayings”. The name speaks for itself, the picture shows more than two dozen different instructive sayings. Here are some of them: banging your head against the wall, leading each other by the nose, pouring beads in front of pigs, putting sticks in wheels, sitting between two chairs, looking through your fingers, and others. Where in the picture is shown, what saying are you looking for yourself.
To live life is not a field to cross.
Every Egor has a saying.
Proverb-flower, proverb-berry.
Not knowing the ford, do not poke your head into the water.
Life is given for good deeds.
Red speech proverb.
Trust in God, but don't make a mistake yourself.
A house is not built without corners, speech is not spoken without a proverb.
Wet rain is not afraid.
Small, but remote.
On someone else's side, I'm happy with my little funnel.
Whoever burns himself in milk, he blows into the water.
A cowardly bunny and a stump - a wolf.
There would be dinner, but the spoon is found.
From time immemorial, the book raises a person.
Own land and in a handful is sweet.
Ah yes oh will not give help.
Falsely acquired for the future will not work.
Once he lied, but for a century he became a liar.
The mother swings high and hits gently, the stepmother swings low and hits painfully.
On the native side and the pebble is familiar.
It is better to forgive ten guilty people than to execute one innocent.
Where the pine has grown, there it is red.
It is bad for him who does no good to anyone.
Wormwood does not grow without a root.
The sting is sharp, and the tongue is sharper.
Without a friend in the heart of a blizzard.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
There is no friend, so look for, but there is, so take care.
A liar is always an unfaithful friend, he will deceive you around.
The native side is the mother, the alien side is the stepmother.
Where to live, there to be known.
Meet by clothes, and see off by mind.
Being a guest is good, but being at home is better.
That bird is stupid, which does not like its nest.
To go to visit - you must also drive to yourself.
Trouble is trouble, and food is food.
On the other side, and the spring is not red.
Every man is the blacksmith of his own happiness.
On the other side, even the falcon is called a crow.
God will soak, God will dry.
Teach children without people.
A storm hits a tall tree.
Altyn silver does not break the ribs.
You don't get rich by cheating, you get poorer.
You go for a day, take bread for a week.
If you like to ride - love to carry sleds.
What is the spin, such is the shirt on it.
He destroys himself who does not love others.
It is better to be silent than to lie.
If you don't know how to sew with gold, then strike with a hammer.
The hand of the giver will not fail.
If only he knew where he fell, he spread straws here.
The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing.
Summer works for winter, and winter works for summer.
Who indulges children, then sheds a tear.
For a scientist they give three unscientists, and even then they don’t take it.
In crowded but not mad.
What goes around comes around.
Prepare the sleigh in summer and the cart in winter.
Who knows a lot, much is asked.
Get up early, understand sensibly, perform diligently.
Perhaps they won’t bring it to good somehow.
The work of the master is afraid.
Play, play, but know the matter.
Finished the job - walk boldly.
You can't even pull a fish out of a pond without difficulty.
The envious eye sees far.
You can't buy health - the mind gives it.
Business time, fun hour.
The day is long until the evening, if there is nothing to do.
Who does not work shall not eat.
Walk in the summer, get hungry in the winter.
Skillful hands do not know boredom.
Patience and a little effort.
You love to ride, love to carry sleds.
There will be a day - there will be food.
Labor feeds a person, but laziness spoils.
Take it together, it won't be heavy.
Beware of troubles while they are not.
The craft does not ask to drink and eat, but feeds itself.
The snow is white, but they trample underfoot, the poppy is black, and people eat.
Although the child is crooked, the father-mother is cute.
Not an ax amuses, but a carpenter.
Do not sit idly by, and there will be no boredom.
Boring day until evening, if there is nothing to do.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Without work to live only to smoke the sky.
Postpone idleness, but do not postpone business.
Don't hurry with your tongue, hurry with your deeds.
Handle every task skillfully.
There would be a hunt - work will go well.
They are greeted by the dress, escorted by the mind.
Learning to read and write is always useful.
And the strength of the mind is inferior.
They sent a smart one - say one word, say three fools, and go after him yourself.
A smart head has a hundred hands.
Mind is good, but two is better.
You can't live without the sun, you can't live without the sweet.
As is the mind, so are the speeches.
In a smart conversation, gain your mind, lose your mind in a stupid one.
Know more and say less.
The stupid one turns sour, but the smart one will provide everything.
The bird is red in singing, and the man in learning.
An unlearned person is like an unsharpened axe.
The dunno lies, and the know-it-all runs far.
If you want to eat kalachi, don't sit on the stove.
From the window of the whole world you can not look back.
Learning is light and ignorance is darkness.
The alphabet is science, and the guys are beech.
An old friend is better than two new ones.
A friend argues, and an enemy agrees.
Do not recognize a friend in three days, recognize in three years.
A friend and brother is a great thing: you won’t get it soon.
I was with a friend, I drank water - sweeter than honey.
There is no friend, so look for, but you will find, so take care.
Make new friends, but don't lose old ones.
For a friend, seven miles is not a suburb.
An orphan without a friend, a family man with a friend.
Seven do not wait for one.
A horse is known in grief, and a friend in trouble.
When the sun is warm, when the mother is good.
There is no friend like a mother.
What is the treasure, if the family is in harmony.
Brotherly love is better than stone walls.
The bird is glad of spring, and the baby of the mother.
The children's hut is fun.
The whole family is together, and the soul is in place.
Maternal affection knows no end.
Maternal anger is like spring snow: and a lot of it falls, but it will soon melt.
The dear child has many names.
Grandmother - only one grandfather is not a grandson.
Good daughter Annushka, if mother and grandmother praise
From the same oven, but the rolls are not the same.
And a mad sheep will be born from a good father.
The bird is in the nest until autumn, and the children are in the house until the age.
From a bad seed do not expect a good tribe.
Capricious in childhood, ugly in years.
All children are equal - both boys and girls.
The children's hut is fun.
1. Appetite comes with eating, and greed is at the time of appetite.
2. Grandmother wondered, said in two whether rain, or snow, whether it will be, or not.
3. Poverty is not a vice, but misfortune.
4. A healthy mind in a healthy body - rare luck.
5. The family has its black sheep, and because of the freak, everything is not to please.
6. Lucky as sabbath drowned man - no need to heat the bath.
7. A raven will not peck out a crow's eye, and peck out, but not pull out.
8. Everyone seeks the truth, not everyone does it.
9. Where it is thin, it breaks there, where it is thick, there it is layered.
10. It was smooth on paper, Yes, they forgot about the ravines, and walk along them.
11. Goal like a falcon, and sharp as an ax.
12. Hunger is not an aunt, won't bring a pie.
13. Hunchbacked grave will fix, and the stubborn - a club.
14. The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shovel: know what is bitter, what is sweet.
15. Two pair of boots, yes both left.
16. Two thirds are waiting, and seven do not wait for one.
17. Girlish shame - to the threshold, overstepped and forgot.
18. The work of the master is afraid, and another craftsman.
19. Road spoon to dinner, and there at least under the bench.
20. The law is not written for fools, if written - then not read, if read - then not understood, if understood - then not so.
21. We live, we chew bread, and sometimes we add salt.
22. For a beaten man they give two unbeaten, Yes, it doesn't hurt, they take.
23. You chase two hares - not one wild boar you won't catch.
24. Overseas fun, but someone else's, and we have grief, but our own.
25. Hare legs are worn, the teeth feed the wolf, the tail protects the fox.
26. And business time, and fun hour.
27. And the blind horse carries, if a sighted person sits on a cart.
28. A mosquito will not knock down a horse, until the bear helps.
29. Whoever remembers the old - that eye out, and whoever forgets - both.
30. The hen pecks grain by grain, and the whole yard is in the litter.
31. Dashing trouble is the beginning, and the end is near.
32. Dashing trouble initiative - there is a hole, there will be a hole.
33. Young people scold - amuse themselves, and the old people scold - rage.
34. They carry water on the (offended) angry, and the good ones themselves ride.
35. Do not open your mouth at someone else's loaf, get up early and start your own.
36. Not all cat carnival, there will be a post.
37. The woodpecker does not grieve that he cannot sing, and so the whole forest hears it.
38. Neither fish nor meat, neither caftan nor cassock.
39. A new broom sweeps in a new way, but when it breaks, it lies under the bench.
40. One in the field is not a warrior, and the traveler.
41. Horses die from work, and people are getting stronger.
42. Horses don't roar from oats but they do not look for good from good.
43. Stick, double-edged, hitting here and there.
44. Repetition is the mother of learning, consolation of fools.
45. Repetition is the mother of learning and a haven for the lazy.
46. Water does not flow under a lying stone, and under the rolling - does not have time.
47. The drunken sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to your ears.
48. Dust in a column, smoke in a yoke, but the hut is not heated, not swept.
49. Work is not a wolf, it will not run away into the forest, because it, accursed, must be done.
50. Grow big, but don't be a noodle, stretch a mile, but don't be simple.
51. The fisherman sees the fisherman from afar, therefore bypasses.
52. Hand washes hand, yes they both itch.
53. Get along with a bee - get a honey, contact with a beetle - you will find yourself in manure.
54. Your eye is a diamond, and the alien is glass.
55. Seven troubles - one answer, the eighth trouble - absolutely nowhere.
56. A bold bullet is afraid, and he will find a coward in the bushes.
57. Dog in the manger lies, she does not eat and does not give to cattle.
58. The dog was eaten, choked on their tail.
59. Old age is not joy, sit down - do not get up, run - do not stop.
60. The old horse will not spoil the furrow, and it won't plow deep.
62. Fear has large eyes, yes they don't see anything.
63. Hit on one cheek - turn the other, but don't let yourself get hit.
64. Mind chamber, yes the key is lost.
