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:
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- Every man has his faults
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- All men can't be masters
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- As plain as the nose on a man's face
- A hungry man is an angry man
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- A drowning man will catch at a straw