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.
Другие пословицы:
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- Children are poor men's riches
- All men can't be first
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- A blind man would be glad to see
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- As plain as the nose on a man's face
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over