Calamity is man's true touchstone
Несчастье - лучший пробный камень для человека.
Человек познается в беде.
Другие пословицы:
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- All men can't be masters
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- No living man all things can
- One man, no man
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- Judge not of men and things at first sight