Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
Жизнь не все пирожки да эль (пиво да кегли) (т. е. не все забавы да развлечения).
Жизнь прожить - не поле перейти (не лапти сплесть).
Другие пословицы:
- Happiness takes no account of time
- Better die standing than live kneeling
- To live from hand to mouth
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin
- He is lifeless that is faultless
- A stitch in time saves nine
- Time works wonders
- For the love of the game
- Live and let live
- No man is wise at all times
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Standers-by see more than gamesters
- He that seeks trouble never misses
- Life is but a span
- He lives long that lives well