The game is not worth the candle
Игра не стоит свеч.
Овчинка выделки не стоит.
Другие пословицы:
- He is lifeless that is faultless
- Lost time is never found again
- Time cures all things
- To live from hand to mouth
- Standers-by see more than gamesters
- Time is the great healer
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin
- Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
- While there is life there is hope
- Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
- No man is wise at all times
- Life is not a bed of roses
- Friends are thieves of time
- Better a glorious death than a shameful life
- A stitch in time saves nine