#russian quote

[academia--nut]

"Яблоко от яблони недалеко падает."

"The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.“

[pabst-bravado]

[litillfiskur]

Если б вы мне сказали одно слово, одно только слово - я бы осталась. Вы его не сказали.

И. С. Тургенев «Ася»

[tiny-loudness]

Быть можно дельным человеком И думать о красе ногтей: К чему бесплодно спорить с веком? Обычай деспот меж людей.

For one may be a man of reason And mind the beauty of his nails. Why argue vainly with the season? For custom's rule o'er man prevails.

“Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin, translated by James S. Falen

[mullita]

не знал я тогда, как ты мне дорога

[p0dvall]

[tiny-loudness]

«Жуйте, как следует», — говорил отец. И жевали хорошо, и гуляли по два часа в сутки, и умывались холодной водой, и всё же вышли несчастные, бездарные люди

‘“Chew your food well,” our father used to say. And we did chew well, and walked for a few hours every day, and washed our faces with cold water, and nevertheless grew up to be miserable and talentless people’ -- the Russian writer Anton Chekhov

[moxi-koshki]

Cossack Quote

“Sinful? Where's the sin?' demanded the old man. 'A sin to look at a pretty girl? A sin to walk out with one? A sin to love one? Be that a sin where you come from? No, my dear boy, that ain't no sin, 'tis salvation. God made you, and God made the girl, too. He made everything there is. So 'tain't no sin to look at a pretty wench. That's what she were made for, to be loved and to give happiness. That's the way I sees it, my good fellow.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks