He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
Кто ждет обуви, которая останется после покойника, тот долго ходит босым.
На чужое богатство не надейся. Чужое добро впрок не пойдет. На чужом жиру далеко не уедешь.
Другие пословицы:
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- As plain as the nose on a man's face
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- Time and tide wait for no man
- No living man all things can
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- A hungry man is an angry man