Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
Вакх утопил больше людей, чем Нептун. Смысл: вино погубило больше людей, чем море.
В стакане тонет больше людей, чем в море. Больше людей погибает в вине, нежели в воде. Кто вино любит, тот сам себя губит.
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- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- Hope is the poor man's bread
- The tailor makes the man
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- Blind men can judge no colours
- Men may meet but mountains never
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- No living man all things can
- One man, no man
- A man can do no more than he can
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- A man can die but once