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:
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- To flog a dead horse
- Children are poor men's riches
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- To kill two birds with one stone
- Cheek brings success
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- Better be born lucky than rich
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- Money has no smell