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Karelian proverbs and sayings

Baba was angry with the city, but the city had no idea about it.
Without roots, even bitter grass cannot grow.
Without a father - an orphan, without a mother - doubly so.
There is no need to learn to be idle.
The disease comes like a storm and goes away with a whistle.
You get tired most of all from idleness.
The mouth will rip apart a large piece, and the small one will feed its fill.
Big, but a stranger, small, but one’s own.
Away is good, home is better.
In which alder forest the mushroom grew, it will rot in it.
In your own region, the water is sweeter.
Even the horse runs faster towards the house.
In someone else's bathhouse, the steam is better and the boards on the shelves are smoother.
The fish in someone else's boat are always bigger.
In someone else's house, like in a dense forest.
The wind doesn't blow, and the sedge doesn't make noise.
The whiskey will turn grey, and the person will become wiser.
Time waits for no one.
Everything in due time.
Everything is born, everything dies.
The bird flies high, but does not know where it will land.
You can't rise higher than the sun, you can't fall lower than the earth.
Where there are strawberries, there are snakes.
Where it is thin, there it is across.
Year after year they are not siblings.
An empty barrel rattles.
Even a small stump will knock over a cart.
Even the sun does not shine equally for everyone.
I gave my word - keep it.
Two roosters will not fit on one dung heap.
Two kings in one palace are cramped.
You can't kill two birds with one stone.
Praise the day in the evening, and praise life in old age.
For a mother, children are cute not because they are beautiful, but because they are their own.
A collar is more expensive than a fur coat.
An only son is not a son, two sons are half a son, three sons are a son.
If a friend is dear, ten miles is not a detour.
My wife is decorating the table.
Don't expect forgiveness for a bad deed.
If I had known where you would fall, I would have laid out a feather bed.
Both handsome men and ugly men pass through the same gates.
You can't make an ear out of nothing.
To the horse on the sleigh that is lucky.
Just as the trees in the forest are not the same, neither are the people.
No matter how you feed the wolf, he keeps looking into the forest.
Like the dog, so are the puppies.
The cat has toys, and the mouse has death.
The pie is beautiful in appearance, but it’s filled with chicken.
A beautiful lie is worse than an ugly truth.
Handsome is always handsome, cunning is not always cunning.
He who doesn’t save a penny can’t even hold a ruble.
Wherever a capercaillie flies, there are pine needles for lunch.
The lazy one will carry everything at once, the smart one will run away five times.
Small spool but precious.
A little horse is a foal all its life.
A small fish is better than nothing.
The less you know, the more you sleep.
You know too much - you'll die young.
Wet is not afraid of dampness.
Apples don't grow on spruce.
At whom the big dog barks, the little one yaps at him.
Do not sail on a small boat on a large lake.
On a bad tree, the branches are bad.
The best thing in the world is health.
You can't go far on someone else's horse.
The beginning is difficult, but the end makes the work better.
Don't chase a fly with your butt.
Don't forget to start, don't forget to finish.
Don't look for someone else's head when your own is on your shoulders.
Don't shout into the forest - it will echo back from the forest.
Don’t bake for everyone: you can’t please everyone.
A pig cannot give birth to a sable, and a cat does not give birth to a marten.
Don't judge a person by his clothes, or a book by its cover.
It is not the dog that bites that barks, but the one that growls.
There is no celebration without uninvited guests.
Not a single bear would exchange its skin for someone else's.
No one can do as much harm as your own tongue.
With one mouth you cry and laugh.
The dead cow was milked with butter.
A stick doesn't hurt as much as a word.
You can't get rid of death by running.
From a thick one to a thicker piece.
A good stump produces good shoots.
You judge a dog by its fur.
If you go to get married, you can leave your eyes at home, take your ears with you.
The fox fell into a trap - and the dog was right there.
After death it is too late to repent.
The child will go to his family.
A child in his youth, an old man in his old age are stupid.
The homeland is ripe strawberries, the foreign land is juniper berries.
You don’t remember your birth, and you don’t know your death.
There is no fish without bones and no tree without branches.
The fish begins to rot from the head.
The catch begins with perch, but ends with salmon.
Even if you stroke a pig or kick it, it still grunts.
Your own penny is worth more than your neighbor’s ruble.
Its burden does not pull.
The family cauldron is boiling thicker.
What is said is worth a hundred rubles, but what is not said has no price.
A word is born from a word, the earth lights up from a spark.
Sit with folded hands and have no calluses.
A dog cannot live without barking.
The sun shines equally for everyone.
Old age comes without asking.
The old one will not go astray from the furrow.
It's hard for the sheep there, where the wolf is among the shepherds.
He picked up the cart - the horse fell, he picked up the horse - the arc broke.
There are no only good and only evil people.
It is more difficult to gain a good reputation than a bad one.
“Many” has no end or edge.
The sword has two blades.
Many owners' dogs will die.
The stick has two ends.
Seven owners and a dog will die.
The happy one has nine successes, the unhappy one has none.
For a happy person, the rooster lays eggs; for an unhappy person, even the chicken loses its eggs.
The ear hears more than the eye sees.
Teach your child while he is across the bench.
Good news sits on the stove, bad news runs through the village.
The good is celebrated far away, the bad is even further away.
A person is twice stupid in his lifetime, once in his youth, and once in his old age.
The person will not exist, but his name will remain.
The stricter the commanders, the more cunning the soldiers.
Apples don't grow on spruce.

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