The greatest wealth of the people is its language! Thousands of years accumulate and forever live in the word untold treasures of human thought and experience. And, perhaps, in none of the forms of linguistic creativity of the people with such force and so multifaceted is his mind manifested, so his national history, social system, life, worldview, as in proverbs, is not crystallized. The well-aimed and figurative Russian language is especially rich in proverbs. There are thousands of them, tens of thousands! Like on wings, they fly from century to century, from one generation to another, and the boundless distance where this winged wisdom rushes its flight is not visible...