It is a hard task to comfort the proud.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about proudness
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Neighbours bring comfort in adversity but only envy in success.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about envy
No comforter's head ever aches.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads
To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about promise, nothing
The sparrow feels comfortable on the thorn bush.
Proverbs and old sayings
Hope is our only comfort in adversity.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about hope
If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
He who suffers many evils is comforted with just a little good.
Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about good, good luck
To promise and give nothing is comfort to a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about promise, nothing
Water does harm but wine comforts.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wine, water
Love is bitter, but it comforts the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bitter, heart, love
Religion will perish because of excessive comforts.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about religion
Monreale, a city without comfort, either it rains, or the wind blows, or bells ring for the dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about city
Who has many comforts and does not use them, won't find a confessor who will grant him absolution.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about absolution, use
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, children
Three comforts of old age: fire, tea and tobacco.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about olderness, age, fire, fire brigade, old
Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people
A woman will be twice bound when her chains feel comfortable.
Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about woman
