Kozma Prutkov

"Если хочешь быть красивым, поступи в гусары."

"Что име́ем — не храни́м, потеря́вши — пла́чем."

"Even an oyster has enemies!"

"If you want to be beautiful, enroll in the Hussars."

"Watch out!"

"Where is the beginning of the end that comes at the end of the beginning?"

"If you want to be happy, be!"

"There are three things that once begun are difficult to finish: a) eating delicious food; b) talking to a friend who had just returned from a military campaign; and c) scratching where it itches."

"Nobody will embrace the unembraceable."

"Let the exact fit of the ammunition be the goal of the soldier's ambition."

"Here come the Slavophiles and Nihilists, and none of them have clean fingernails."

"Every tailor has his own views on art!"

"Wisdom is like turtle soup in that not everybody can get it."

"Not any tickling is pleasant."

"Is there anybody in the world who could embrace the unembraceable?"

"And once again: nobody will embrace the unembraceable!"

"Look in the roots!"