The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
Верблюд, собиравшийся подыскать себе рога, потерял собственные уши.
За чужим погонишься - свое потеряешь. Искав чужое, свое потерял.
Другие пословицы:
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- To be up to the ears in love
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day
- Hungry bellies have no ears
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- A curst cow has short horns
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Neither fish nor flesh
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice