If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
Если бы желания были лошадьми, нищие могли бы ездить верхом.
Кабы сивому коню черную гриву, был бы буланый.
Другие пословицы:
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- To cook a hare before catching him
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- Little pigeons can carry great messages
- A curst cow has short horns
- Every bird likes its own nest