Every miller draws water to his own mill
Всякий мельник воду на свою мельницу отводит. Смысл: всякий о себе заботится.
Каждый в свою нору тянет.
Другие пословицы:
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- To build a fire under oneself
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Blood is thicker than water
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To draw water in a sieve
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Fools grow without watering
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- Beware of a silent dog and still water