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:
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- Blind men can judge no colours
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- One man, no man
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- A man can do no more than he can
- Hope is the poor man's bread
- Children are poor men's riches
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- All men can't be masters
- Men may meet but mountains never
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise