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:
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- Fish and company stink in three days
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- A bird may be known by its song
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- Neither fish nor flesh
- To buy a pig in a poke
- All is fish that comes to his net
- That cock won't fight
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- To give a lark to catch a kite