The game is not worth the candle
Игра не стоит свеч.
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Другие пословицы:
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Live and learn
- He lives long that lives well
- Lost time is never found again
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Standers-by see more than gamesters
- Time is money
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin
- Friends are thieves of time
- Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
- He is lifeless that is faultless
- Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
- Live not to eat, but eat to live
- Life is not a bed of roses
- Happiness takes no account of time