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:
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain
- Little pigeons can carry great messages
- He that has no money needs no purse
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- Children are poor men's riches
- A curst cow has short horns
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- The end crowns the work
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- All is fish that comes to his net
- The early bird catches the worm