Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
Лучше быть головой собаки, чем хвостом льва. Смысл: лучше быть первым среди простых людей, чем последним среди знатных или богатых.
Лучше быть головой кошки, чем хвостом льва.
Другие пословицы:
- Curiosity killed a cat
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- Every dog is valiant at his own door
- The moon does not heed the barking of dogs
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- He is a fool that forgets himself
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other
- Idleness rusts the mind
- A wager is a fool's argument
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- He that lives with cripples learns to limp
- A word is enough to the wise
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- Head cook and bottle-washer
- Every dog has his day