The early bird catches the worm
Ранняя птичка ловит червя.
Какая пташка раньше проснулась, та скорее и корму нашла. Ранняя пташка носок прочищает, а поздняя глаза продирает. Кто рано встает, того удача ждет. Кто рано встает, тому бог дает. Кто поздно встает, у того хлеба недостает.
Другие пословицы:
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- All is fish that comes to his net
- A bird may be known by its song
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly