A wager is a fool's argument
Биться об заклад - довод дурака (т. е. когда у дурака нет доводов, он предлагает биться об заклад).
Спорь до слез, а об заклад не бейся.
Другие пословицы:
- Fool's haste is no speed
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- So many men, so many minds
- He that has no head needs no hat
- Idleness rusts the mind
- If things were to be done twice all would be wise
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- Learn to creep before you leap
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
- The face is the index of the mind
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit
- It is never too late to learn
- A fool at forty is a fool indeed