Russian Popular Saying

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    No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.
    Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    Louise, something in me tightens when an American intellectual’s eyes shine, and they start to talk to me about the Russian people. Something in me says, Watch it, a new version of Irish Catholicism is being offered for your faith.
    Warren Beatty (b. 1937)

    What’s wrong, a little pavement sickness?
    —Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)