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:
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose
- To be head over ears in debt
- All men can't be first
- A sound mind in a sound body
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- Wise after the event
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
- Children are poor men's riches
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- Fool's haste is no speed
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- Two heads are better than one
- As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks