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.
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- Children and fools must not play with edged tools
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- Soon learnt, soon forgotten
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks
- By doing nothing we learn to do ill
- He that lives with cripples learns to limp
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
- Learn to say before you sing
- Two heads are better than one
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup