The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
Несчастья, которые мы сами на себя навлекаем, тяжелее всех.
Другие пословицы:
- An evil chance seldom comes alone
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly
- To kill two birds with one stone
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- The devil lurks behind the cross
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him