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:
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- The end crowns the work
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest