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:
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- To buy a pig in a poke
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- When pigs fly
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- One fire drives out another
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl