Little chips light great fires
От маленьких щепок большие пожары бывают.
От копеечной свечки Москва сгорела. Малая искра великий пламень родит.
Другие пословицы:
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- There is no fire without smoke
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- To fish in troubled waters
- Still waters run deep
- Blood is thicker than water
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- To build a fire under oneself
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- There is no smoke without fire
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past