| English | Russian |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | укатали сивку крутые горки (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything) |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | укатали бурку крутые горки (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything) |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | уходили бурку крутые горки (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything) |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | умыкали сивку крутые горки (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything) |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | умыкали бурку крутые горки (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything) |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | уходили сивку крутые горки (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything) |
| the feet are slow when the head wears snow | был конь, да изъездился (said of a person who lost his good abilities, gifts, influence) |
| uneasy lies the head that wears a crown | тяжёл ты, венец царский |
| uneasy lies the head that wears a crown | тревожно голове под тяжестью короны |
