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:
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- Fish and company stink in three days
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- Every bird likes its own nest
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- When pigs fly
- To kill two birds with one stone
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock