Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
Болезни к нам являются верхом, а от нас уходят пешком.
Болезнь входит пудами, а выходит золотниками. Беду скоро наживешь, да не скоро выживешь.
Другие пословицы:
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- An ass in a lion's skin
- Birds of a feather flock together
- To cook a hare before catching him
- The best fish smell when they are three days old