Great Throughts Treasury

"It takes all kinds of trees to make a forest."

"It was smooth on paper, but we've forgotten about ravines (and we'll have to march them)."

"It will snap where it's the thinnest."

"It is good, there where we are not."

"It's better to be too aware than too unaware."

"It's better to see once than hear a hundred times."

"It's the still waters that are inhabited by devils."

"It's not for stealing that you are punished, but for getting caught."

"It's not gods who make pots."

"Job feeds the man, and laziness spoils him."

"Life is short, but there's a lot to be done."

"Let your heart go and it will lead you into slavery."

"Let everyone pick his own nose."

"Law is like a shaft of a cart, it points wherever you turn it to."

"Live for a century — learn for a century."

"Living mindlessly is paradise."

"Living your life is not like crossing a meadow."

"Living life is not like crossing a meadow."

"Long farewell - unnecessary tears."

"Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains"

"Loose words are picked up like gold coin."

"Look for wind in a field."

"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh"

"Love and hunger are the foundation stones of all things."

"Lovers seek willingly new roads; the married seek the old."

"Love makes the owl seem prettier than a white falcon."

"Luck and bad luck are driving in the same sledge."

"Mass is not repeated for the deaf."

"Maybe and somehow won't make any good."

"Make peace with man and war with your sins."

"Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

"Measure seven times, cut once."

"Moustache is respected and beard is worn even by goats."

"Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside."

"No bones are broken by a mother's fist."

"Morning is wiser than the evening."

"No family has no ugly member."

"No one makes contracts with God."

"Nobody goes to another monastery with one's own charter."

"Not all who make love make marriages"

"My tongue is my enemy (, speaks ahead of mind)."

"Moscow does not believe in tears."

"No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled."

"No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God; and can swim"

"No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest."

"No money is taken for just looking ( at somebody or something). (There is nothing to prevent an ordinary person from l looking at a person of great importance so long as he tries to do no harm)"

"No one knows how the poor man dines."

"Not every glittering thing is gold."

"Not every day is a Shrovetide, in time it will be a Lent."

"Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk. (Do not judge people by what they appear to be)"