Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
Посади нищего на коня, он и к самому дьяволу отправится.
Посади свинью за стол, она и ноги на стол.
Другие пословицы:
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- All lay load on the willing horse
- When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- Little pigeons can carry great messages
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Death pays all debts
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- A curst cow has short horns
- An idle brain is the devil's workshop
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- Needs must when the devil drives
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear