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:
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- A man can do no more than he can
- All men can't be first
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Every man has his faults
- Man proposes but God disposes
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- Men may meet but mountains never
- Like master, like man
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- Children are poor men's riches