Proverbs about man: 50 sayings with meaning ✍

Short Russian proverbs and sayings about humanity, about positive and negative emotions, about moral actions, about different qualities in character and how it affects our life. And in general about the behavior and formation of personality.

1. Man - that sounds proud!
2. Human labor feeds, and laziness spoils.
3. Rye and wheat will be born a year, and a kind person will always come in handy.
4. A man is born - and a piece of bread is ready.
5. Man is friend to man, comrade and brother.
6. The nightingale takes by singing, and man - by skill.
7. Man is not a fungus; he will not grow on a day.
8. Language is small, a great man tossing.
9. To fishes - water, to birds - air, and to man - all the earth.
10. Look at the tree by its fruits, and the man by its deeds.
11. Russian people do not live without relatives.
12. A good person remembers good.
13. The fish is looking where it’s deeper, but the man where it’s better.
14. A man will become stronger - stronger than stone, and weaken - weaker than water.
15. Rust on iron, and untruth in a person does not hide.
16. To fishes - to the sea, to birds - to air, and to the person the fatherland the universal circle.
17. Man man stands.
18. You will recognize a person when you dissolve a pound of salt with him with a spoon.
19. What a city, then burrows, and what a man, then custom.
20. His hair is gray, but there is no conscience.
21. In whom there is shame, that is conscience.
22. Good good, and a thin half in half rib.
23. Melet is day to evening, but there is nothing to listen to.
24. My tongue is my enemy: before the mind prowls, seeks trouble.
25. Barely soul in the body.
26. Not a penny, but fame is good.
27. I can’t eat, but leave a pity.
28. The spirit is cheerful, but the flesh is weak.
29. No one is good from your beaver.
30. An empty mill and without a wind grinds.
31. A hungry kuma is all the bread on his mind.
32. Mind and mind will be wise at once.
33. Evil Natalia has all the people of the canal.
34. Good Ivan - both to people and to us; thin Ivan - neither to people, nor to us.
35. Not for you to say, but not for me to listen.
36. Folds well, but doesn’t know anything.
37. He speaks red, but to listen is sickening.
38. There are many friends, but no friend.
39. Not afraid of the miller noise.
40. Clean as a chimney sweep.
41. He has a tongue like a razor.
42. I’m not fighting myself, but I'm not afraid of seven.
43. Take a look, so the forest wilts.
44. It takes everything, but not everything succeeds.
45. They will give the fool the honor, so he does not know where to sit.
46. Little dog to old age puppy.
47. Such friends that grapple, so you can’t turn a stake.
48. Speech is quiet, but dashing in heart.
49. He is good for Satan.
50. I’m calling a lot, but there's little use.

We tried to consider a number of issues of interest and examined the topic from different angles, namely: proverbs, person personality, proverbial people, proverbs about people and proverbs, and proverbs on the topic person personality in general. In a word, they tried to capture as much as possible the whole range of human qualities, and statements about good deeds.

If our proverbs come in handy, this will be a class.