Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
Лучше маленький огонь, который нас согреет, чем большой, который нас сожжет.
Хорошего понемножку.
Другие пословицы:
- Too much water drowned the miller
- To draw water in a sieve
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- The fat is in the fire
- Little chips light great fires
- To build a fire under oneself
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- To pour water into a sieve
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody