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:
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- To fish in troubled waters
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- Neither fish nor flesh
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- A curst cow has short horns