You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
Можно отвести лошадь на водопой, но невозможно заставить ее пить.
Силою не все возьмешь.
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- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- There is no fire without smoke
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- First catch your hare
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody