The game is not worth the candle
Игра не стоит свеч.
Овчинка выделки не стоит.
Другие пословицы:
- Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- Time is the great healer
- He that seeks trouble never misses
- Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
- While there is life there is hope
- Procrastination is the thief of time
- No man is wise at all times
- He is lifeless that is faultless
- He lives long that lives well
- Standers-by see more than gamesters
- To live from hand to mouth
- Live and let live
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Better die standing than live kneeling
- Live not to eat, but eat to live