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:
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- All is fish that comes to his net
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- Never offer to teach fish to swim