Soft fire makes sweet malt
Слабый огонь варит сладкий солод. Смысл: добрым словом многого добьешься.
Ласковое слово не трудно, а споро.
Другие пословицы:
- Little chips light great fires
- There is no smoke without fire
- To draw water in a sieve
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- One fire drives out another
- Too much water drowned the miller
- The fat is in the fire
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- Blood is thicker than water
- To fish in troubled waters
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- To build a fire under oneself
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire