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:
- Fish and company stink in three days
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- A curst cow has short horns
- Neither fish nor flesh
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- To flog a dead horse
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese