Talk:Kozma Prutkov

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  • Many things are not well understood by us not because our concepts are weak, but because those things lay outside of our concepts
    • Многие вещи нам непонятны не потому, что наши понятия слабы; но потому, что сии вещи не входят в круг наших понятий
  • Throwing pebbles into the water, look at the ripples they form on the surface. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement.
  • Where is the beginning of the end that comes at the end of the beginning?
  • If you have a fountain, shut it down. Let even a fountain have a rest.
  • If you see a "buffalo" sign on an elephant's cage, do not trust your eyes.
  • If ever asked: What's more useful, the sun or the moon, respond: The moon. For the sun only shines during daytime, when it's light anyway, whereas the moon shines at night.
  • Nobody can take hold of limitless.
  • Beware!
  • When it concerns art, every tailor has views of his own.
  • Every expert is like a gumboil: his fullness is one-sided.
  • Not every general is stout by nature.
  • Snap a mare on the nose and she will flap her tail.
  • God placed death at the end of life to give us time to prepare for it.
  • If you want to be happy, be so.
  • If you want to be handsome, enroll in the Hussars.
  • Diligence overcomes everything!
  • Sometimes, diligence can overcome even the reason.
  • How pathetic is any constitution at sight of well-kept ammunition!
  • Don't tell jokes to the ladies, for these jokes are stupid and obscene.