An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold
Осел ослом останется, даже если он гружен золотом.
Свинья в золотом ошейнике - всё свинья. Осел останется ослом и в орденах и в лентах!
Другие пословицы:
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- A penny saved is a penny gained
- To kill two birds with one stone
- All asses wag their ears
- In for a penny, in for a pound
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- Time is money
- That cock won't fight
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- To fish in troubled waters