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:
- A great ship asks deep waters
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Still waters run deep
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- To draw water in a sieve
- Little chips light great fires
- Too much water drowned the miller
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To build a fire under oneself
- There is no fire without smoke
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- Fools grow without watering
- To pour water into a sieve