We never know the value of water till the well is dry
Мы никогда не знаем насколько ценна вода, пока не высохнет колодец.
Цену вещи узнаешь, когда потеряешь. Что имеем, не храним, потерявши, плачем.
Другие пословицы:
- There is no fire without smoke
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- Fools grow without watering
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- A great ship asks deep waters
- To draw water in a sieve
- To build a fire under oneself
- To pour water into a sieve
- To fish in troubled waters
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea