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:
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- All is fish that comes to his net
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- That cock won't fight
- Money has no smell
- The end crowns the work
- To fish in troubled waters
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- An ass in a lion's skin
- All that glitters is not gold
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing