Размещая сыр в мышеловке, проверь, чтобы хватило места для мыши.
You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
Женщины и Слоны никогда не забывают обиду.
Ваш мальчик не овладеет как следует дурными привычками, если вы не пошлете его в хорошую школу.
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
Небольшая неточность избавляет от целых тонн объяснений.