Proverbs with Antonyms: 50 Sayings with Meaning ✍

Many proverbs in Russian use phrases with opposite in meaning words that stand in pairs and are called antonyms. That is, a combination of words with antonymic concepts whose meanings are expressed by logically incompatible concepts. And if you think about it, it is precisely the proverbs and sayings with antonyms (as well as synonyms), where there are examples of such words, that develop speech and the mental processes we need.

1. Clever loves to learn, and a fool to learn.
2. The mean rich man is poorer than the beggar.
3. The root of the doctrine is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
4. Work - while away the day; to rest - to spend the night.
5. Old age is not joy, and youth is not self-interest.
6. Learning is light and ignorance is darkness.
7. With smart you can find and lose.
8. Happiness mixed with misfortune - nothing remained.
9. The fool will throw, and smart get it.
10. The oath to the clever is scary, but the stupid is ridiculous.
11. In the belly is not thick, and in the pocket is empty.
12. Sometimes a stupid smart one will seduce.
13. The ugly tries to seem beautiful, the stupid tries to say smart things.
14. The poor will sigh, the rich will laugh.
15. The poor one sings songs, and the rich only listens.
16. It happens like this: both old - yes a cock, and young - yes a foul.
17. In youth, labor; in old age, prosperity.
18. Range causes melancholy, and intimacy causes coldness.
19. Hot forging, cold selling.
20. Hungry - bread, well-fed - quirks.
21. The appetite runs from the patient, and rolls to the healthy.
22. Put away, take a closer look.
23. Joy is not eternal, sadness is not infinite.
24. The evening is crying, and in the morning joy.
25. The stupid only whistles, but the smart one knows.
26. There is no silver lining.
27. Better to give your own than to take someone else's.
28. A well-fed hungry man, but a rich man does not know the poor.
29. God gave relatives, and to hell with enmity.
30. Know how to take, know how and give!
31. God forbid with a smart to lose, God forbid to find a fool!
32. It’s easy to find happiness, and losing is even easier.
33. In the morning he was good, and by the evening he became useless.
34. The foolish will judge, but the clever will judge.
35. Happiness on the wings, misfortune on crutches.
36. One with his wife is joy, the other is sorrow.
37. Happiness swells, mischief hooks.
38. If you praise the day, so scold the night.
39. Do not cry in truth, get comfortable with a lie!
40. In July, the field is thick and the barn is empty.
41. Honey is not tasty for the patient, but healthy and eats stone.
42. It’s bitter in battle, but then sweet.
43. Swallow bitterly, but speak sweetly.
44. Bitter work, yes sweet bread.
45. Strong in skin, but weak in kind.
46. On the tongue is honey, and on the heart is ice.
47. Words cannot be replaced.
48. Flies to light, and mice to darkness.
49. With clever scolding - gaining your mind, with a fool putting up - lose your own.
50. Fight with cold while it's warm, and with hunger - while you're full.

A huge layer of folk wisdom are proverbs, but antonyms, as we see, are found in them quite often. We figured out that antonyms are pairs that are opposite in meaning of words, the so-called words - “opponents”. For example: replenish - spend, insert - extract, pick up - drop. Proverbs with antonyms in Russian, like riddles, can be used in lessons (for example, grade 5) when it is necessary to consolidate the concept of antonyms and teach them how to use them in speech.

Read and choose proverbs that contain antonyms: multi-root and single-root, proportionate and disproportionate .... Understand their meaning. Choose 5 proverbs with the antonyms you like.