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:
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Speech is silver but silence is gold
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- A close mouth catches no flies
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- Children are poor men's riches
- To cook a hare before catching him
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- All is fish that comes to his net