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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- Men may meet but mountains never
- All men can't be masters
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- A hungry man is an angry man
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- Children are poor men's riches
- Every man has his faults
- One man, no man
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Every man to his taste
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last