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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Другие пословицы:
- Wise after the event
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one
- A man is known by the company he keeps
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- The face is the index of the mind
- Fool's haste is no speed
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- Two heads are better than one
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice