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:
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one
- All men can't be masters
- One man, no man
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- All men can't be first
- Men may meet but mountains never
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- A man can die but once
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold