Little chips light great fires
От маленьких щепок большие пожары бывают.
От копеечной свечки Москва сгорела. Малая искра великий пламень родит.
Другие пословицы:
- To fish in troubled waters
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- Still waters run deep
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- The fat is in the fire
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- One fire drives out another
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Beware of a silent dog and still water