Little chips light great fires
От маленьких щепок большие пожары бывают.
От копеечной свечки Москва сгорела. Малая искра великий пламень родит.
Другие пословицы:
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- To draw water in a sieve
- To build a fire under oneself
- Blood is thicker than water
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- To pour water into a sieve
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- One fire drives out another
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- Soft fire makes sweet malt