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:
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- That's a horse of another colour
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- All lay load on the willing horse
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- First catch your hare
- Fish and company stink in three days
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse