Little chips light great fires
От маленьких щепок большие пожары бывают.
От копеечной свечки Москва сгорела. Малая искра великий пламень родит.
Другие пословицы:
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Fools grow without watering
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To fish in troubled waters
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- There is no fire without smoke
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- The fat is in the fire