…     I understand you. He who wishes to feel one’s overstated value live in the hotel.

 

long LIFE (pos.)

355     Yes. I am sorry that not everyone leaves 40 ton of shits after whole one’s life.

356     He that wishes to have old age long, must be old early.

 

LIFE on a native land (pos.)

357     Even a clever Jews become the fools when they strive for Israel from USA or Russia.

 

night LIFE (pos.)

358          -Night life is the life of the cockroaches.

          -No it is not. Night life is the life of the lion.

 

LIFE for the present (pos.) (see also care for a future, care for a present, consumption, delight, enjoyment, festivity, think about the future, work for the present)

359     One begins to live for the sake of the present, when he feels that there is not the future for him.

360     Only those who have not an idea about tomorrow inclined to the life for the present.

361     Teachers save people from his superfluous passion of the present. Do you hate them?

362     Today’s weather has the greatest importance only for one-day butterfly.

363     One must go to the well with a bucket and a long cord. One must do everything with a care of the future.

364     A person who has a bad past has not need in it. A person who has a dread of a future has not need in it. Who will envy the present of such men?

365     Let elders enjoy in the present. Next days will be worse for them than today.

366     Really, only a child can use the present. Do you want to be in one’s second childhood?

 

LIFE for the present (neg.)

367     The present is the thing, which doesn’t lie.

368     Only that pain is acute which is now.

369     The best food is only that one which is ready now.

370     Freedom-lover prefers living during the most free time – during the present.

371     It is better to gather a harvest from a narrow bed than to sow the wide field.

372     One couldn’t make a fair copy of one’s life later.

373     Real bread is on sale now.

374     A neglect of the present is alike a work of mother in the garden, when she didn’t suckle her child.

375     A fish, which was caught just now, is the best.

376     Now a man who was not in the past and who will not be in the future has the best time for his life.

377     In the youth everyone must live for the sake of youth but not only for the sake of future life.

 

LIFE for the present (for me) (pos.)

378     As for me, my life is not the business list for today.

379     As to me, a life in calendar day is the life in close costume.

 

LIFE in a province (pos.) (see also life in a capital)

380     Only the capital has and gives the best condition for revolution.

 

LIFE in a province (neg.)

381     Metropolitans who tell about the province don’t know it. Sometimes, they tell that provinciality is looking back at the metropolitan yardstick. Sometimes, they tell that provinciality is the life in accordance with own yardstick.

382     There is no the provincial life for the person who occupied by creative work.

 

LIFE of a rich man (pos.)

383     Life of a rich man is alike life of the fool. Both may do all things, which they want.

384     The rich live a dull life. They never sing a song themselves on one’s own.

 

right LIFE (pos.) (see also conscience, honesty, justice, law, order, sin)

385     He, who to search for truth with greater frenzy makes greater mistakes.

 

short LIFE of a great man (neg.) (see also happiness)

386     Only a little flower has long life.

387     It is possible, that an underground lavatory is more long-lived thing than the lofty cathedral.

388     “Flashed” may be more appreciable act than “was during whole time”.

389     An underground lavatory may have more long life than a temple.

 

LIFE during socialism (neg.)

390     In the time of socialism a circulation and edition were ten times more. It means that people are getting less read i.e. they are getting spend more time for obtaining daily bread. So, the life became worse.

391     Just in the time of capitalism the dramatic genre is vanishing from theatre because of surroundings becomes as the drama, and nobody has wish to look at one more drame in the theatre.

 

LIFE in a steppe (pos.)

392     Did you take a detached view? Did you saw a fly on the dish?

 

LIFE in a steppe (neg.)

393     There are no cowards in the steppe. There are no covers there.

 

sweet LIFE for an old man (pos.) (see also sweet)

394     All strained claims about moral regard for old people is based on their immorality, light-minded lack of readiness to the death and their wish to have a good life in defiance of nature’s law and God’s will, at last. What is the great moral of ancient old people who get left society on one’s will!

 

LIFE of an unemployed (neg.)

395     A worker and an unemployed have almost identical life. The life is the struggle in any case. A worker fights with a hunger before the dinner and with sleeping after one. The unemployed man fights with sleeping before dinner and hunger after one.

 

quick LIFTING of a great man (pos.)

396     As for a quick lifting, an eagle have more difficulties than a sparrow.

 

LIGHT (pos.)

397     The light nut has no kernel.

398     He who holds on to the light thing couldn’t holds out.

399     A crumbling wall feels lightness of each its piece.

 

LIGHT (neg.)

400     They test the strength of a donkey by heavy weight.

 

LIGHT (exist)

401     There is the light feather, which couldn’t been threw on a roof.

402     Even the mitten pulls down the hand, if this hand carries a heavy beg.

 

LIGHT (lack)

403     A necessary stone is not heavy.

 

LIGHT for own thing (lack)

404     Wings are not the heavy load for a bird.

405     The fatty tail is not the heavy load for a sheep.

 

the LIGHT (pos.)

406     A light makes the dazzle.

 

electric LIGHT (pos.)

407     Have you a fresh surge of energy because of looking by the light which has urinary colour?

 

LIGHT-mindedness (neg.)

408     Well, the bore cannot be called the light-minded man.

409     As I know, he who is bored to death doesn’t feel well.

 

LIGHT-mindedness for a great man (neg.)

410     He, who never done a rash deed, is not so much wise as he supposes about himself.

411     Light-mindedness is a good thing. The sum total of the prolonged meditation and the common sense is less than the sum total of the light-mindedness and the common sense.

 

LIGHT-mindedness for a love (neg.)

412     I’m not such serious as you are. I cannot imagine the end of my love as you imagine the end of your love.

413     If somebody doesn’t absolve the multiplicity of losses he cannot be called the light-minded person. Is not it?

 

LIGHT-mindedness of a woman (neg.)

414     A pessimist thinks that all women are light-minded. An optimist hopes for this fact.

 

LIGHT-mindedness in the youth (neg.)

415     Youth is not just the search of means of subsistence for old ages.

 

LIKENESS (exist)

416     Well, a dried fish resembles a Pharaoh’s mummy most of all.

417     A tiger and goat drink water from the same river.

 

LIKENESS with a devil (exist)

418     Well, a great thing resembles another great thing thanks to their greatness.

 

LIKENESS with parents (lack)

419     Childs of butchers are never vegetarians.

 

LIMIT (pos.) (see also abstention, economize, freedom, guard, interdiction)

420     Even a beautiful open-worked curtain deteriorates a good view.

421     The more a man dislikes the world, the more his desire to limit it.

422     If it’s necessary, a clever person will agree to be fallen in abyss without bottom.

 

LIMIT (neg.)

423     Roadside poles to prevent fall into a precipice.

424     A pregnant stomach must not be blown out to the chin.

425     Only a fool will agree to climb a mountain without a top.

426     He who tried to limit a stick invented a wheel.

427     Warm-blooded creatures have a limit, too. This limit is the total unfitness after the cooling. What power this limit gives!

428     Collaboration is limited. Enmity is unlimited.

429     He who acts with understanding own scantiness is nearest to perfection.

 

LIMIT (exist)

430     They seek to look beyond any wall.

 

LIMIT (lack)

431     A bath couldn’t have water above its wall-level.

432     There is not a sail above the mast.

 

LIMIT animal (neg.)

433     -Rule put a ban on an animal. –But it is clean. –You have the right even to sleep with it, but rules put the ban on an animal to do it (to be there).

 

LIMIT enemy (neg.)

434     A foolish mouse gnaws a cord, which ties a cat.

 

LIMIT for a friend (neg.)

435     One doesn’t take wattle-fence from the posts even if he has friendship with his neighbor.

436     Even between two brothers – the eyes must stay a fence – the nose.

437     A dog is the man’s friend. But it never been admits to the rose’s water.

 

indirect LIMIT (neg.)

438     If the stomach aches, limit mouth. If eyes ache, limit hands.

 

LIMIT for interlocutor (pos.)

439     Are you the adherent of boundaries and customs?

 

LIMIT for interlocutor (neg.)

440     I feel your thoughts go out the limits of their applicability, too.

 

LIMIT me (pos.)

441     I was not brought up among fences.

 

LIMIT movement (pos.)

442     Don’t act against the nature. The cat, limited in movements, will strives to bit even the man who strokes it.

 

LIMIT an old man (pos.)

443     An old dog wouldn’t get accustomed to the collar.

 

LIMIT right away (neg.)

444     One must begin to hold back his horse from a top, but not from a half of hill.

 

LIMIT a subordinate (pos.)

445     There is always a tore carpet near the tied cat.

446     A horse detests even gold bridle.

 

LINCOLN (pos.)

447     Many who praise Lincoln try to be out of mention that he volunteered for murder American Indians on their motherland.

 

LINE of business (pos., neg.) (see also honor, profession, skill, work)

448     Composer Bach was deaf. Writer Ostrovsky was blind. Why N could not has this line of business?

 

LINE of business (neg.)

449     People have interest to condemn that which they have no ability to do.

450     A man, who wants know the correct value of jewels, must become the jeweler.

451     Only one, who can to cultivate an earth, knows its high price.

452     Dostoevsky said that one of the ways for humiliation of a person is to convince him of that nobody needs his line of business or pursuit.

 

hereditary LINE of business (neg.)

453     It is more sad case when somebody inherits only a good name.

 

shop’s LINE during socialism (neg.)

454     Deficit of good things which was created by high prices is worse than the deficit which was created by shop’s line.

 

LINGUIST (pos.)

455     One can call a saddle by nine languages, but he put down it on the cow.

 

LINGUISTICS (neg.)

456     A wicked man can’t be a linguist. If he would be linguist then he will be the worst linguist because of the lack of his wish to understand others.

 

like a LION (pos.)

457     I know those "noble lions" which hunt in the night.

458     I know those "noble lions" which pick up the carrion after hyenas.

459     I know how noble these “noble lions” can be after devouring many living people.

460     I know these “noble lions”, who kill all nephews and nieces after a seizure of power.

 

thick LIPS (pos.)

461     Well, best lips are that lips which are wider than brims of chamber-pot.

 

LISTEN (pos.)

462     Let donkey’s ears move thanks to this tale.

463     Any speech is not important because any man never speaks whole truth.

464     The really dangerous snake is under flowers. The really dangerous person covered himself by pleasant words.

465     The more take listening, the more buzzing in ears.

466     A psychiatrist would listen N with more interest.

467     -Sometimes the things which charming somebody’s ear averting eyes. A clever people know this fact.

     -What is the fact?

     -For example, they know about castrated singers.

 

LISTEN (neg.)

468     A most deaf man is the man who doesn’t wish to listen to.

469     A truth is missing at places where there is no listening.

470     Well, a warm has no need of ears.

 

LISTEN (lack)

471     He who has much knowledge doesn’t doubt that they to listen him.

 

LISTEN to an advice (neg.)

472     Who insists that you must act like a mullah? But it is necessary listen him.

 

believer LISTENS (neg.)

473     The God didn’t stinted quantity of ears.

 

LISTEN to a chief (pos.)

474     He, who want draws some head to own side, draws by its ear.

 

LISTEN for enrichment (pos.)

475     If a benefit for listening would be, then a donkey became the great scientist.

 

LISTEN for enrichment (neg.)

476     A speaking man sows. A listening man reaps.

 

LISTEN to a fool (pos.)

477     If dunderheads have speaking then let dunderheads listen them.

 

LISTEN to a fool (pos., neg.)

478     If you want to recognize a fool by the best way, don’t beat or scold a man, but listen.

 

LISTEN to a fool (neg.)

479     It is better to listen to a fool than tell him own thoughts.

 

interlocutor LISTENS to a fool (neg.)

480     I understand you. You don’t like a truth which often may be listened in words of child or foolish man.

 

I LISTEN (pos.)

481     My ears are too much short for it.

482     I cannot to listen it like an old ram listens a horn.

483     Well, I wish to listen the end of this important speech most of all.

484     Understand me rightly. I respect you and ceding area even to your voice.

485     Why not? I’ll have to enjoy you.

486     You are free to talk. I am free to walk.

487     I don’t wish entertain you by my listening of your tale.

488     You couldn’t find me as a grateful listener.

 

I LISTEN (neg.)

489     Well, sorry we are not frogs. Sorry we have ears.

 

I LISTEN the woman (pos.)

490     I put only my eye to the women’s bath-room, but not ear.

 

interlocutor LISTENS (neg.)

491     Have you ears only for your hat wouldn’t slips down over your eyes?

 

LISTEN to an interlocutor (pos.)

492     If you have a need to say your say – continue your saying.

493     Your speech would have better sound at the empty hall.

494     Oh, you are some kind of poet. Usually, poets consider that everyone must abandons own affairs and to be occupied with listening or reading verses.

 

LISTEN to a Jew (neg.)

495     Well, you are not Jew. You cannot to listen that is to receive.

 

male LISTENS (pos.)

496     N is not a woman. His ears will not have ear-rings thanks by hearing.

 

woman LISTEN to a male (pos.)

497     My ears don’t receive an ear-rings for the hearing your speech.

498     I doubt that there is woman, who is ready listen stories of thousand and one nights.

 

woman LISTENS to a male (neg.)

499     Woman’s ears receive an ear-rings thanks to they listened man’s speeches.

 

LISTEN to N (neg.)

500     N is not child or woman that they should be seen him, but not heard.

 

LISTEN to N in one’s own house (pos.)

501     One never sits in somebody else’s car with his own music.

 

old man LISTENS (pos.)

502     Only a young bird looks at the strange mouth.

 

an ordinary man LISTENS (neg.)

503     Listening is the politeness which a clever man often renders to the fool, but the fool never renders it to the clever man.

 

LISTEN to an ordinary man (pos.)  

504     If you would know that words penetrate the same profundity which concocted them, then you would not be so importunate.

 

LISTEN to an ordinary man (neg.) (see also advice, incite, intercourse, knowledge, lie, trust)

505     Any thought may be called “food”. So, the better “stomach”, the more various “food” may be assimilated by it.

 

poor man LISTENS (pos.)

506     There is a need to pay for the role of thankful listener.

 

LISTEN repeated speech (pos.)

507     Even a gentleman has no duty to listen an old joke as a new one.

 

LISTEN to a rich man (pos.) (see also advice, argue, follow, intercourse, trust)

508     It is more difficult to say, “Eat!” It is easier to say, “Listen to me!”

509     To look at a rich man’s mouth means to keep own hungry.

 

subordinate LISTENS (pos.)

510     They catch a cow by its ear.

511     He, who not heard “Stop!” will hear “I shooting!”

 

LISTENER (neg.)

512     That is not good language, that all understand not.

 

LITERACY (pos.)

513     The writer Harms was shot by literate man.

 

LITERACY for a poor man (pos.)

514     Many scoundrels are ready come down with money for literacy of poor men for the sake of boring their brains by advertisements.

 

LITTER (pos.)

515     Is the rubbish heap better than the clean place? Do you neglect your living place?

 

a LITTLE (pos.) (see also abstention, big, economize, enough, few, part, small, use of little thing)

516     Hen’s reasoning is to consider one feet up flight as a flight.

517     You won’t get full picking your teeth.

518     Do you use a crumb, which was gathered even around breeches’ buttons?

519     You like to offer a weak soporific that one couldn’t fall asleep after taking it.

520     They never look at the sky through a straw.

521     You are lucky man. You have easy living. You pour your house’s cactus by spittle.

522     A dog couldn’t stop until it licked a plate.

523     It is impossible to fill a well with dew.

524     A barrel couldn’t be strengthened by cobweb.

525     I see. You got accustomed to wipe the dirt by spirit exhalation but not by spirit itself.

526     Who needs one dust of a diamond?

527     Nobody would cut one’s hand for using a drop of iodine.

528     A storm of fortress by a little assault groups, ruin them one after another.

 

a LITTLE (neg.)

529     A little fire is a friend. A big fire is an enemy.

530     He for whom a thin twig is enough may fly.

531     Even a straw would be needed for a man when he wishes to pick one’s teeth.

532     A bird builds a nest by a blade after a blade.

533     The better beer, the more its shortage into the mug.

534     An ocean has a greatness because of it doesn’t neglect even a small rivers.

535     Too much salt is worse than insufficient salting.

536     Too much scented man couldn’t distinguish subtle smells.

537          -A hen has her fill by pecking a grain after a grain.

          -It wastes whole day for its eating.

538     One coin from each New-Yorker makes a millionaire.

539     He that has little is the less dirty.

540     Where nothing is, a little does ease.

541     Little strokes to fell great oaks.

542     A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.

 

a LITTLE (exist)

543     A little thing is not so little when there is not another one.

544     “Three” is so much for a giving man. “Five” is so little for a taking man.

 

a LITTLE thing for a great man (neg.)

545     Brilliant shines more brightly with candles than the sun. Bottle’s

 

LITTLE by LITTLE (neg.) (see also concession, extreme)

546     It is better they have daily drizzle, than a great downpour one time in three month.

 

a LITTLE and often (pos., neg.)

547     Little and often fills the purse.

548     Hair and hair makes the Carl’s head bare.

 

How you would LIVE when I would be died?

549     There is more interesting question. How I will live if you don’t died?

 

LIVE peacefully!

550     For whom your words are? For thugs who can’t live in harmony? Or for people who come across with thugs and who wish to live in harmony thousand times greater than you?