The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
Кошка хотела бы рыбы поесть, да лапки замочить боится.
И хочется, и колется. Проглотить-то хочется, да прожевать-то лень.
Другие пословицы:
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- First catch your hare
- All asses wag their ears
- Dumb dogs are dangerous
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- Like a cat on hot bricks
- The end crowns the work
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- Never offer to teach fish to swim