Russian Proverbs on Bread

A gift of bread to a good man is a loan, and an alms to others.

The meal is bad where there is no bread.

When a human being is born, a bit of bread is ready for him.

Without a bit of bread even a palace is sad, with it a pine-tree is paradise.

The house is beautiful, but unhappiness is there if no bread is in it.

Bread is a head of all.

Bread is a father, water is a mother.

Bread is a gift from God, it is a father, a nurse.

Bread is a good thing everywhere—at home or over the sea.