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.
Другие пословицы:
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- To fish in troubled waters
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- One fire drives out another
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- Fools grow without watering
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody