One is bad and the other is good. Proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, jokes, parables, clever thoughts
Compiler Yuri Alekseevich Berkov
ISBN 978-5-4493-1588-5
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Yuri Berkov
Proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, jokes, parables, clever thoughts
Dear readers! For many years (there was no Internet yet) I have been collecting proverbs and sayings, aphorisms and jokes, parables and just smart thoughts heard or read. Often the authors are not known to me (and if they are known, then I indicate them). This is folk wisdom (pearls) that helps me live and not make mistakes.
Proverbs and sayings
STANDARDS OF MORALITY AND MORALITY
Each member of society in his life must be guided by the moral and ethical standards developed by mankind throughout its difficult history. Violation of these norms leads to the degradation of the human personality and the condemnation of others. These norms have come down to us from time immemorial and are expressed in the following proverbs and sayings:
1. He is right who has more rights.
2. That's what power is for, to live to your heart's content.
3. Do not sit in your sleigh.
4. Each cricket know your hearth.
5. Your shirt is closer to your body.
6. By righteous labor you will not make stone chambers.
7. The hand washes the hand, and the thief hides the thief ..
8. You to me, I to you.
9. Those who make the rules live by the exceptions.
10. Without humiliating others, you will not exalt yourself.
11. Law - that the drawbar, as it turned, so it happened.
12. Happiness is not in money, but in their quantity.
13. The well-fed does not understand the hungry.
14. If you can’t, but really want to, then you can.
15. Alien soul - darkness.
16. Love is evil, you will love a goat.
17. Why love, why suffer, since all paths lead to bed.
18. With the world on a thread - a naked machine.
19. A smart person will not go uphill, a smart person will bypass the mountain.
20. Hit on the left cheek - substitute the right.
21. Do not urinate against the wind, you will pour yourself.
22. Whoever is weak and sick, the hare is not happy with that either.
23. Work is not a wolf - it will not run away into the forest.
24. What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the bull
25. A woman's hair is long, but her mind is short.
"What it is? – you thought. - This is some kind of nonsense! Where did you, Mr. Berkov, dug up these "norms"? Do you seriously think to be guided by them? They are completely immoral!”
“I played a prank on you, my dears. These are just those "norms" that should not be guided by members of society. Here is a list of the actual rules:
1. Truth is not in strength, but strength is in truth.
2. A slanderer has a small mind and a black heart.
3. Dirt in the souls generates dirt around, and the dirt around cripples souls. Only beauty will save the world.
4. In life there is either happiness or money, but together - rarely.
5. No hatred is as irreconcilable as envy.
6. It is indecent that is unpleasant for others.
7. Life itself is neither good nor evil: it is a container for both good and evil, depending on what you have turned it into.
8. The most cherished desire of a sycophant is to dump his boss.
9. At all times there have been people who, for the sake of truth, are ready to climb the fire, and there were those who are not averse to warming their hands by this fire.
10. Whoever behaves disgustingly in appearance shows not only laziness, but also low morals.
11. The one who lived for things - loses everything with his last breath, the one who lived for people - after death lives among them.
12. Usually those who have few of them shout about their merits.
13. A tightly stuffed brain is a dangerous thing,
if combined with an empty heart.
14. To take someone else's is to lose yourself.
15. Remember friendship, but forget evil.
16. Gifts and the wise blind.
17. You won't get the truth by swearing.
18. The richest is the one whose joys require the least amount of money.
20. You can't build happiness on someone else's misfortune.
21. Criticism is not a girl, she cannot be loved,
it must be taken as a bitter medicine.
22. Well-deserved glory inspires, excessive - brings.
23. Money does not bring happiness, but it does bring prosperity and confidence in the future.
24. A dress warms the body, and friendship warms the soul.
25. Cunning is the weapon of the weak.
26. The rich man who does not help the poor is like a nurse suckling her own breast with gusto.
27. Do not dig a hole for another, you yourself will fall into it.
28. Only mediocrity is afraid to be direct.
29. The habit of finding only the funny in everything is a sure sign of a petty soul and vile morals.
30. Having lied once - who will believe you?
Folk proverbs on other topics
The pen writes, the paper endures.
- The woman has long hair, but the mind is short.
- A goose is not a comrade of a pig.
- Look for a wife not in a round dance, but in a garden.
- To whom is the war, and to whom is the mother dear.
- A full belly is deaf to learning.
“Trust in God, but don’t make a mistake yourself.”
“You can’t throw a scarf over every mouth.
- The word is not a sparrow, it will fly out - you won’t catch it.
- An affectionate word and a cat is pleased.
- Where you sit on a lazy person, you will get off there.
- Gruzdev called himself get in the body.
- Out of sight, out of mind.
- From good - good is not sought.
- Do not wake famously while it is quiet.
You don't know where you will find, where you will lose.
- Not by washing, so by skating.
- The drunken sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to the ears.
“Don’t spit in the well—you’ll need a drink.”
- Trouble has come - open the gate.
Don't dig a hole for someone else, you'll fall into it yourself.
- The truth pricks the eyes.
- There is nothing not to blame the mirror, since the mug is crooked.
- Ate, drank, it's time and honor to know.
- An attempt is not torture, but demand is not a problem.
- It’s bad for the sheep if the wolf is a shepherd.
- Hurry - you will make people laugh.
- The devil is not as scary as he is painted.
- Not for Senka hat.
- A frightened crow is afraid of a bush.
- Mouse tears will be shed to the cat.
- Work loves fun.
- Not with a bast.
- Rechist, but unclean on the hand.
- Not in the eyebrow, but in the eye.
- Found a scythe on a stone.
- Appreciate a friend - a thief, and not a friend - a indulgence.
- All is well that ends well.
- There is no comrade for the taste and color, one likes pop, and the other - hits.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- From a black sheep - at least a tuft of wool.
- No, there is no trial.
- Seven times measure cut once.
- You don’t say hello to every sneeze.
“Speech is silver, silence is gold.”
- On the thief and the hat is on fire.
- The dog barks - the wind carries.
- Softly spread, but hard to sleep.
- An old friend is better than two new ones.
“Let’s sit side by side and have a chat.”
- Like a cow licked her tongue.
- Patience and work will grind everything.
- Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- The need for invention is cunning.
- A bargain is a bargain.
- Carelessness is related to crime.
- The richer, the more happy.
- The apple never falls far from the tree.
- They cut the forest - the chips fly.
Don't harness the horse behind the cart.
- They say that oranges will not be born from aspen.
- Long to choose - not to be married.
There is nothing worse than a wife without a husband, and a husband without a wife.
- The wife is not a mitten, you can’t take it off your hand, you can’t throw it over the fence.
- Love is fast, that the water is hollow.
“They don’t go to a foreign monastery with their own charter.
- Pull out the tail - the head will get stuck (you stick your nose).
- Negligence is the sister of carelessness. (N. Bulakhov)
Where there is an end, there is a beginning for everything.
“You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.”
“Seven do not wait for one.
“It’s hard for someone who runs away from work to live.
- Where there is work, it is dense, but in a lazy house it is empty.
- Lucky for those who are lucky.
It is easy to destroy what is not created by you.
“Better to have a titmouse in your hands than a crane in the clouds.”
If only youth knew! If old age could!
- To take someone else's - to lose yourself!
- A carefree dream is sweet.
- Take care of the dress again, and honor from a young age.
“You won’t get the truth by swearing.
- Know yourself.
You can force fear, but you cannot force love.
Remember friendship, but forget anger.
“A bad peace is better than a good quarrel.
- Sport is strength, alcohol is a grave.
“If you chase two hares, you won’t catch one.”
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Milk will not sour in a cow.
- If you suffer for a long time, then something will work out!
- The one who convinces wins!
A man is interested in his future, and a woman is interested in her past.
“Our shot has ripened everywhere.
- Small spool but precious.
- Best the enemy of the good.
- The saying of lazy people: "Whatever you do, just don't do it!"
- The proverb of skaters: “If you want to live, know how to spin!”
- To teach a fool that the dead can be cured.
Everything possible starts with the impossible.
- The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing.
Not everything simple is ingenious, but everything ingenious is simple.
– If a problem can be solved for money, it is not a problem, but an expense.
- Adam is the first lucky one, because he did not have a mother-in-law.
God gave man two ears and one mouth so that he would listen more and talk less.
- May God save you from bad women, but save yourself from good ones!
“The wine came in, the mystery came out.”
Don't be sweet or you'll be eaten. Don't be bitter or they'll spit you out.
“Knowledge does not take up much space.
The guest and the fish begin to smell after three days.
- If you do not want to be sat on your neck, do not bow low.
– Choosing from two evils, a pessimist will choose both.
“It’s not as good with money as it’s bad without them.
- Gray hair is a sign of old age, not wisdom.
It is more difficult to be silent well than to speak well.
- A bad wife is worse than rain: rain drives into the house, and a bad wife drives it out.
- God! Help me to stand up - I can fall myself.
- No matter how sweet love is, you can’t cook compote from it.
- He who does not have children brings them up well.
It is better to die of laughter than of fear.
“Experience is the word people call their mistakes.
- Aging, a person sees worse, but more.
- On those offended by God, they are not offended.
- You can't forbid living beautifully.
The rich have their habits.
- Learn to control yourself.
- Vodka loves the weak.
- Want is not harmful.
- I want - I want to.
- For free and sweet vinegar.
“Free cheese only happens in a mousetrap.
- Well done among the sheep, and against the good fellow and the sheep himself.
We continue to publish the most frequently used wise proverbs in English and their Russian counterparts. Today we present you 7 next wonderful statements, thanks to which your speech can sound more interesting and brighter.
The first proverb concerns the importance of spelling in English. Some English learners are so accustomed to text editors automatically correcting their mistakes that they find writing skills unnecessary. However, the following English proverb states otherwise.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is stronger than the sword.
Verbatim: The pen is more powerful than the sword.
Particular attention to your spelling should be paid to those who are going to take the exam. One of our English teachers has prepared useful tips for you on how to. Use the advice from it and follow the instructions of the following proverb.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Trust in God, but don't make a mistake yourself. Hope for good, and expect bad.
Verbatim: Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.
Good preparation for exams is the key to success. Therefore, it is better to calculate the most difficult options in advance, be prepared for the worst and hope for good luck.
However, not everyone learns English in order to pass exams. Someone wants to communicate with foreigners via Skype, someone wants to read books in the original language, someone wants to feel calm while traveling to different countries. For those who pursue the last of these goals, we have a wonderful proverb. Follow this saying, and you will definitely not have serious problems when talking with residents of different countries.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
They don’t go to a foreign monastery with their own charter.
Verbatim: When you're in Rome, act like a Roman.
To become at least a little like an American in America or a Brit in the UK, study. This way you will learn how to behave abroad, which gestures are desirable and which should be avoided.
By the way, do you know that learning English is most effective if you use your strengths and weaknesses correctly. For example, identify from our articles as well. The following proverb will confirm our words.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
What is good for one is death for another.
Verbatim What is rubbish to one is treasure to another.
After determining your learning style, it is worth checking whether the way of mastering English that you use at the moment is right for you. It may be worth comparing the most common ways of learning a language and choosing the one in which you find more advantages and fewer disadvantages. We studied this issue and described in detail all the pros and cons in the article "". Take a look at it and decide whether the near-free self-study is right for you or it is better to study effectively with a teacher. Whichever path you choose, we want to remind you: everyone needs a helper, even if you gnaw at the granite of science on your own. Listen to the following wise English proverb.
No man is an island.
There is safety in numbers.
Verbatim A: no man is an island.
In addition to a good mentor, one more important principle in mastering the English language should be remembered: all skills must be developed simultaneously. A good level of knowledge is achieved by working on reading, listening, speaking and writing, as well as a dictionary. It is impossible to speak well if you neglect grammar or vocabulary expansion. Everything must develop simultaneously and harmoniously. And this statement is consistent with a wonderful English proverb.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Where it is thin - there it breaks.
Verbatim: A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
So, in order to overcome the language barrier and increase the level of language proficiency, you need to work on all the "links" of your chain. Naturally, if you study with an experienced teacher, then it will be easier to make your chain strong - the teacher will give you a good "metal" (material) for work, explain how to work correctly. But it is you who will be the blacksmith of your own happiness in your English, so be prepared for work. The results of your studies and the strength of your chain of knowledge depend on you. Let the following proverb help you take responsibility for yourself.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
Verbatim: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
It will lead you to a reservoir, but only those who want it themselves, who are ready to make efforts to achieve the required level of knowledge, can quench their thirst for knowledge.
Let English proverbs help you understand the wisdom of the English people and the principles of learning the language. Listen to them, perhaps these tips will give you the right thoughts, and you will take up your studies.
There are many interesting expressions, proverbs and phraseological units in the Russian language. One of these sayings is the well-known phrase "What is good for a Russian is death for a German." Where did the expression come from, what does it mean and how can it be interpreted?
The difference between Europe and Russia
It is known that the physical constitution of a person largely depends on the natural and climatic conditions in which society is forced to live. The European climate, like the Russian one, gives rise to a corresponding character.
The climate in Europe is mild and moderate. The life of the peoples inhabiting these lands has always been the same. The time needed to work was distributed evenly throughout the year. While the Russians were forced to either rest or work beyond their strength.
The natural conditions of Russia cannot be called mild. A short summer and a long cold winter have contributed to what is commonly called the Russian soul. Forced to constantly struggle with cold winters, the Russian person has a special temperament that cannot but be called a little aggressive. In addition, the climate has a significant impact on the formation of the physiology of the nation. This must be borne in mind when explaining the meaning of the saying "What is good for a Russian is death for a German." And of course, every nation has its own history, which affects the mentality of people, their way of life. The difference between Western European countries and Russia in this case is very significant.
The first version of the origin of the proverb "What is good for a Russian is death for a German"
This expression is used in everyday speech all the time. Saying a proverb, people do not think about its origin. "What is good for a Russian is death for a German" - no one will remember who said this for the first time and where this phrase came from. Meanwhile, according to one of the versions, its origins should be looked for in the history of Ancient Rus'. On one of the holidays in Rus', they laid a table rich in various delicious dishes. In addition to them, they also brought traditional sauces, horseradish, and homemade mustard. The Russian hero tried it and continued the feast with pleasure. And when the German knight tasted the mustard, he fell dead under the table.
Another version of the origin of the proverb
"What is good for a Russian is death for a German" - whose expression it used to be, it is difficult to say. There is an interesting story explaining the origin of the catchphrase. A doctor was called to the ailing artisan boy. He, after examining, concluded that he did not have long to live. The mother wanted to fulfill any last wish of the child, to which the young doctor allowed him to enjoy any food. After the child ate cabbage with pork, which was prepared by the hostess, he began to recover.
Then a German child who suffered from the same disease was invited to dinner. When the doctor told him to eat cabbage with pork, the unexpected happened: the boy died the next day. The doctor made an entry in his notebook: "What is good for a Russian is death for a German."
Russia will save the world
What else is different, and so much so that it allows many great minds to call Mother Russia the savior of the world, in particular Europe? Some differences appear even in private life. An illustrative example is the banal habit of washing. Many Western historians have notes that testify in favor of the fact that the Slavs have a steady habit of constantly pouring water on themselves. In other words, Russians are used to bathing in running water.
What is good for a Russian is death for a German, or everyday habits of different peoples
To compare the historically established European and Russian customs, it is necessary to make a short digression into the past. In the days of the Roman Empire, cleanliness has always been the key not only to health, but also to a fulfilling life. But when the Roman Empire collapsed, everything changed. The famous Roman baths remained only in Italy itself, while the rest of Europe was striking in its uncleanliness. Some sources say that until the 12th century, Europeans did not wash at all!
The case with Princess Anna
"What is good for a Russian is death for a German" - this saying expresses the essence of the differences between representatives of different cultures and nations. An interesting incident happened to Anna, the Kievan princess, who was supposed to marry the King of France, Henry I. After arriving in France, her first order was to take her to bathe. Despite their surprise, the courtiers, of course, complied with the order. However, this did not become a guarantee of getting rid of the wrath of the princess. She informed her father in a letter that he sent her to a completely uncultured country. The girl noted that its inhabitants have terrible characters, as well as disgusting household habits.
The price of uncleanliness
Surprise, similar to that experienced by Princess Anna, was also expressed by the Arabs and Byzantines during the Crusades. They were amazed not by the strength of the Christian spirit that the Europeans had, but by a completely different fact: the smell that reeked a mile away from the crusaders. What happened afterwards, every student knows. A terrible plague broke out in Europe, which claimed half the population. Thus, we can safely say that the main reason that helped the Slavs to become one of the largest ethnic groups, to resist wars, genocide and famine, was precisely cleanliness.
An interesting fact is that after Galicia fell under the rule of Poland, Russian baths completely disappeared in it. Even the art of perfumery originated in Europe with the aim of combating unpleasant odors. And this is displayed in the writer's novel "Perfumer: the story of a murderer." In the book, the author vividly describes what happened on the streets of Europe. All biological waste was poured from the windows directly onto the heads of passers-by.
pharmacy legend
When Russian troops captured Prague on November 4, 1794, the soldiers began to drink alcohol in one of the pharmacies. Sharing this alcohol with a German veterinarian, they accidentally took his life. After drinking the glass, he expired. After this incident, Suvorov uttered the catch phrase: "What is good for a Russian is shmertz for a German," which means "pain, suffering."
An interesting fact should also be noted. The proverb "What is good for a Russian is death for a German" does not exist in German. It is offensive, so it is better not to pronounce it in the presence of representatives of this people. For us, it means the following: what may be useful to one person may be harmful to another. In this sense, the well-known proverb "Another's soul - darkness" or "To each his own" can serve as its analogue.
It is also necessary to remember that earlier in Rus', not only immigrants from Germany were called Germans. This name was worn by all foreigners. Those who did not know local traditions, Russian customs and did not know how to speak Russian were called dumb, or Germans. Because of this, they could get into various comic and sometimes unpleasant situations. Perhaps this proverb was born as a result of such cases.
This phrase has a deep practical meaning. Very often people are incapable of empathy. No wonder the ethical sense among children is considered giftedness. But for adults, the ability to enter into the situation of another person and "try on his skin" is very important for successful interaction in society. A similar meaning also carries which says that it is not worth doing about a person and somehow judging him until the moment when the one who wants to make a judgment has spent a day in his shoes.
What is beneficial for one person is highly undesirable for another. Or maybe even fatal. Take, for example, the widespread statements that you should not recommend medicines that have helped you to your relatives, friends and acquaintances - they can not heal, but aggravate the disease. And this will also help to fully understand the true meaning of the well-known proverb, in which in fact there is not a drop of nationalist views.
