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:
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- Fools and madmen speak the truth
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit
- A fool always rushes to the fore
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- Every man has his faults
- Idleness rusts the mind
- Learn to say before you sing
- One man, no man
- Learn wisdom by the follies of others
- A man can die but once
- The tailor makes the man
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- By doing nothing we learn to do ill