Last updated on September 5, 2022 by Roger Kaufman
These everyday pearls of monetary knowledge about how to properly handle money and wealth are still relevant today.
International aphorisms such as “time is money” or “cash does not smell” (attributed to the Roman Emperor Vespasian) also prevail in Russia.
Nevertheless, the mythology has a number of original ones proverbs and sayings about the green stuff, the superfluous as well as the inadequate, the frugal and the piggy.
Here are just 19 rubles quotes and sayings
One kopeck saves one ruble
One kopeck is one hundredth of a ruble. In other words, it's a tiny amount, and in old ones too Times you couldn't buy much.
Nevertheless, popular wisdom recommends not ignoring them.
If you save the kopecks, you'll eventually have one ruble, and if you're lucky, even two.
A related saying goes: “A kopeck in the hand deserves more than an unattainable ruble.”
Alright guys lieben Russians, now you probably have more kopecks in your hands than you would like!
You can thank your President Putin, who is now hated abroad and probably also in your country.
If you want to have more rubles in your wallet again, then you probably know what to do, right?
Don't have a hundred rubles, have a hundred friends
Ordinary people have well understood that money buys things.
However, top human qualities and connections were higher valued as money itself.
At the same time, another claim is: “Even the devil dances for cash” – that is, cash chooses everything.
Popular wisdom on this point is contradictory, like that live even.
Joy does not depend on money
Plain and simple.
Anyone who dumps friends in search of cash will not be happy.
You can't purchase happiness with just any kind of cash.
However, another Russian proverb provides a different perspective: “With cash – sweet, without money – terrible.”
Don't give a dime
There was a dime old Russia is worth two kopecks and in colloquial language generally refers to any type of useless coin.
There are numerous proverbs with this word. “Don’t give a dime” implies not valuing something at all.
Unworthy of a damaged grosh
This expression was most commonly heard in the industry when negotiating with the seller to try to lower the price.
Nowadays it has a metaphorical meaning: worthless.
- A penny is unworthy, but is equal to a ruble
This is said by a haughty person who is actually a nobody but still behaves arrogantly.
Such people are never liked. By the way, you can see what Russian rubles look like here.
1 Russian ruble corresponds to 03.04.2022 CHF on April 0.011rd, 4, i.e. approx. 05.12.2003x less than on December XNUMXth, XNUMX
Find numerous People are also leaving Russia because of Putin's attack on Ukraine because they are afraid that the situation will worsen.
That's why they try to keep their cash safe.
Above all, many people in Russia are also withdrawing large amounts of money from their accounts.
Long queues have been forming at ATMs in Moscow for days because of Western sanctions against Russian banks.
The ruble is experiencing unprecedented devaluation compared to foreign currencies because of Putin's war against Ukraine. People in Russia fear for their savings due to the war.
Source: NTV
A contract is worth more than money
Another Say about Honor and also honesty.
Once you have actually agreed to something, even out loud, it is your responsibility to follow through.
If there is a brain, there is a ruble
A philosophical question: Does a smart person need cash?
Nevertheless, various others crowd around claims to: “The less you have, the better you rest” and “More money, more problems”. What do you think?
Relationships and money don't mix
The majority of Russians are very sensitive when it comes to cash.
Offering and borrowing from buddies is avoided if possible.
Due to the fact that it is hurtful and disrespectful if it is not paid back.
After all, a financial obligation is red when it is paid!
A miser pays twice
This homemade one wisdom has been put to the test by several generations!
Dear High quality that lasts rather than scrap that breaks quickly.
In short: spending money saves money. By the way, this statement is often used by Vladimir Putin.
Money is not a mushroom - you can find it even in the winter season
Such a Saying could just come from Russia. Below, people only choose mushrooms during the short home window of late summer – early fall. While money can be “chosen” all the time.
A motivating stimulus from across the centuries to pull up your socks and seize the day.
Ruble quotes and sayings - The ruble rolls - Russian sayings
“If you're faced with this nuclear arms race, you're most likely just going to bounce the debris off.” - Winston Churchill
Everyone can live as they want with their own money - a ruble that belongs to you is more expensive than a brother. – Maxim Gorky
The clock of communism has actually stopped beating. But its concrete structure has not yet collapsed. For this reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its debris. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“For me the whole world is like a huge theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The band is playing the overture to the third act, the stage is wide as if in a dream, my heart is beating with joy - and you also want to blind me with half-ruble glasses?" – Isaac Babel
“National politics and war were simply different names for power, and the costs of power were predictably high and could be measured specifically – in rubles as well as blood.” – Tara Janzen
“It doesn’t matter that your color is small. Copecks are also small, but if a lot is created, they make one ruble. Every painting exhibited in a gallery and every good publication that makes it into a collection, no matter how small, offers an excellent reason: the rise of national wealth.” – Anton Chekhov
“Mercenaryism, pride, routine and even idleness are the cardinal sins of the Russian official, and the very first has such a strong hold on him that the people claim: To make themselves understood by him, one must cut rubles; including that in Russia everyone who cannot do so because their hands are nailed is deprived of Christ.” – Emilia Pardo Bazan
“We live in one Time, in which the global financing markets are the ultimate power in the world, and if they shift against you, as they have actually shifted against Russia, as we have actually all seen with the ruble, there is absolutely nothing that can stop that.” – Roger Altman
“The beautiful have drawn this city (Hollywood) into vast useless herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful money of their charm diminish the value of such as the Russian ruble or the Argentine peso; working as a bellboy, as a bartender, as a garbage collector, as a maid. The city was a high cliff, and they were its wild lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the Valley of Broken Dolls.” – Salman Rushdie
