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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- Children are poor men's riches
- Every man to his taste
- Every man has his faults
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- No man is wise at all times
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- Man proposes but God disposes
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- Men may meet but mountains never
- The busiest man finds the most leisure