Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
Обычай (т. е. соблюдение условностей) - наказание для умных и предмет поклонения для дураков.
Другие пословицы:
- The face is the index of the mind
- A silent fool is counted wise
- An idle brain is the devil's workshop
- Two heads are better than one
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
- Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- Fool's haste is no speed
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- The tailor makes the man
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- Idleness rusts the mind
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit