
„Man kann die Pferde zur Tränke führen, saufen müssen sie selber.“
“We cannot, by international action, make the horses drink. That is their domestic affair. But we can provide them with water” - John Maynard Keynes: "The Means to Prosperity" (1933) p. 27, Keynes-gesellschaft.de http://www.keynes-gesellschaft.de/Hauptkategorien/LebenWerk/AusspruecheParabeln.php, eine Abwandlung des Sprichworts
"A man may well bring a horse to the water / But he cannot make him drink without he will." - John Heywood: "A Dialogue of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue Concerning Marriages" Part I Chapter XI (1562), edited by John S. Farmer, London 1906 p. 33 books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=pK07AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33