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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- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- Judge not of men and things at first sight
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- A man can die but once
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last
- Men may meet but mountains never
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- Time and tide wait for no man
- The tailor makes the man
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- A man can do no more than he can
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve