Soft fire makes sweet malt
Слабый огонь варит сладкий солод. Смысл: добрым словом многого добьешься.
Ласковое слово не трудно, а споро.
Другие пословицы:
- There is no smoke without fire
- A great ship asks deep waters
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- Too much water drowned the miller
- There is no fire without smoke
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- The fat is in the fire
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Blood is thicker than water