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1 high places have their precipices
високі місця мають свої безодніEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > high places have their precipices
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2 HIGH
• Climb not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• He sits not sure that sits high - Близ царя - близ смерти (Б), Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• He who climbs too high is near a fall (to fall) - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B), Гарцевал пан, да с коня упал (Г)• Higher standing, the lower fall (The) - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (В), Гарцевал пан, да с коня упал (Г)• Higher the mountain, the greater descent (The) - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• Higher the place, the harder the fall (The) - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• Higher they go, the lower they fall (Тhе) - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (В), Гарцевал пан, да с коня упал (Г)• Higher you climb, the harder you fall - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• Highest branch is not the safest roost (The) - Близ царя - близ смерти (Б)• Highest in court, nearest the widdie - Близ царя - близ смерти (Б)• Highest tree has the greatest fall (The) - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• High places have their precipices - Близ царя - близ смерти (Б), Гарцевал пан, да с коня упал (Г)• Look high and fall in the dirt - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B)• Look high and fall low - Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (B) -
3 Гарцевал пан, да с коня упал
See Высоко летаешь, да низко садишься (В)Cf: Не who climbs too high is near a fall (Br.). Не who climbs too high is near to fall (Am.). The higher standing, the lower fall (Br.). The higher they go, the lower they fall (Am.). High places have their precipices (Am., Br.). One who climbs high falls low (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Гарцевал пан, да с коня упал
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the best government is that in which the law speaks instead of the lawyer better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven a crown is no cure for a headache divide and rule dress a monkey as you will, it remains a monkey still everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over fish begins to stink at the head the great fish eat up the small he sits not sure that sits too high he that cannot obey cannot command high places have their precipices the higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail if you can't command yourself, you can't command others it is better for a town to be governed by a good man than by good laws it is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope the king can do no wrong kings have long arms a new broom sweeps clean the pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God the statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician sudden power is apt to be insolent, sudden liberty saucy; that behaves best which has grown gradually that government is best which governs least
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