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:
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- To buy a pig in a poke
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Money has no smell
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- To kill two birds with one stone
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- Children are poor men's riches
- To cook a hare before catching him
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese
- Old birds are not caught with chaff