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:
- Man proposes but God disposes
- All men can't be masters
- A hungry man is an angry man
- One man, no man
- Blind men can judge no colours
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- Every man to his taste
- Judge not of men and things at first sight
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- A blind man would be glad to see