It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
Плоха та птица, которая собственное гнездо пачкает.
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- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- A curst cow has short horns
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- The end crowns the work
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold