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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- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- One man, no man
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Blind men can judge no colours
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- No living man all things can
- A man is known by the company he keeps
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- Men may meet but mountains never
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last
- Hope is the poor man's bread
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- All men can't be first
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one