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:
- A penny saved is a penny gained
- Money has no smell
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- All lay load on the willing horse
- To cook a hare before catching him
- Money begets money
- The end crowns the work
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- To buy a pig in a poke
- A curst cow has short horns