Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
Законы ловят мух, а шершней отпускают.
Закон, что паутина: шмель проскочит, а муха увязнет. Алтынного вора вешают, полтинного чествуют.
Другие пословицы:
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- To kill two birds with one stone
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep