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:
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- That cock won't fight
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- Children are poor men's riches
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- Nothing succeeds like success
- A penny soul never came to twopence
- The early bird catches the worm
- Better be born lucky than rich
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks