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Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.

Proverbs and old sayings about help, americans, old, olderness

They couldn't beat the donkey so they beat the saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

He who couldn't overcome the donkey took on the saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

They couldn't find any reason to criticize the roses, so they complained that they were red.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about reason

He couldn't drag a herring off the coals.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It's better than the loan you couldn't get.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

You couldn't make half a football team out of all the Leinster men in Heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about football, man

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about god

Without a fertilizer, there couldn't be any plants.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

It's raining, it's pouring:

It's raining, it's pouring;
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and he
Bumped his head
And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Traditional Songs

The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about thinking, world, people, americans

Love entered and you didn't realize it: you wanted to drive it out but you couldn't.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about love

If the young had the motivation and the old had the strength, there'd be nothing that couldn't be accomplished.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about motivation, nothing, old, olderness

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, old, olderness

What a man thinks up for himself, his worst enemy couldn't wish for him.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wish, enemies, man