Blood is thicker than water
Кровь гуще воды (т. е. узы кровного родства сильнее других уз).
Свой своему поневоле брат. Свой дурак дороже чужого умника. Свое дитя и горбато, да мило.
Другие пословицы:
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- There is no smoke without fire
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- A great ship asks deep waters
- To pour water into a sieve
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To fish in troubled waters
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Fools grow without watering
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)