Soft fire makes sweet malt
Слабый огонь варит сладкий солод. Смысл: добрым словом многого добьешься.
Ласковое слово не трудно, а споро.
Другие пословицы:
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- Little chips light great fires
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Still waters run deep
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- The fat is in the fire
- Too much water drowned the miller
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Blood is thicker than water