Soft fire makes sweet malt
Слабый огонь варит сладкий солод. Смысл: добрым словом многого добьешься.
Ласковое слово не трудно, а споро.
Другие пословицы:
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- One fire drives out another
- Little chips light great fires
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- To fish in troubled waters
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Fools grow without watering
- To build a fire under oneself
- He will never set the Thames on fire