Little chips light great fires
От маленьких щепок большие пожары бывают.
От копеечной свечки Москва сгорела. Малая искра великий пламень родит.
Другие пословицы:
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- To build a fire under oneself
- A great ship asks deep waters
- To fish in troubled waters
- There is no fire without smoke
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Still waters run deep
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- A little fire is quickly trodden out