Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good bone. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- From bad to worse.
- Our day will come.
- It never rains but it pours.
- One man's meat is another man's poison.
- A drowning man will catch at a straw.
- Fortune is blind.
- Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
- It is not work that kills but worry.
- Misfortunes never come alone.
- Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
- While the grass grows, the horse starves.
- He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a tea-cup.
- Every flow has its ebb.
- Bread never falls but on its buttered side.
- Whom God loves, his bitch brings forth pigs.
- Rust eats up iron.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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The worst hog often gets the best pear.
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Souvent à mauvais chien tombe un bon os en gueule.
Every bad dog has a good bone in its mouth.
German
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Je schlimmer die Sau, desto besser die Eicheln.
The worse the sow, the better the acorns.
Czech
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Na krásném pazdeří rádi psi léhají.
Dogs like to lie on the beautiful flint.