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:
- When pigs fly
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- To flog a dead horse
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- The end crowns the work
- An ass in a lion's skin
- Every bird likes its own nest
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks