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Fear is no obstacle to death.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about obstacles, fear, death

One is certain only of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about death

There's no insurance against death and poverty.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about poverty, death

The ugliest life is better than the nicest death.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about death, life

The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, death, world

If you start thinking of death, you are no longer sure of life.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about thinking, death, life

A wild dog is best eaten when clubbed to death.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

The death throes of an elephant are not so annoying as a living flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death

About laziness-it is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.

Proverbs and old sayings Indian about laziness, lie, death

A ruined people are as miserable as a dog in the house of death.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about death, home, house, people

If you hide a sick person, your lamentation alarm will only announce his death.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about death, people

No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wish, death

The one who persists in asking question he learn the death of his Mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about question, death, mother

You only understand the joys of parenthood when you have your first child, you only understand the mystery of death when in mourning.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, death

He who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.

Proverbs and old sayings

When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death, god, man

If vodka, tar and sauna don't help, the disease leads to death.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help, death

If the bathroom and a brandy cannot help a man, then death is imminent.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help, death, man

Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.

Proverbs and old sayings German about age, olderness, death, things, home, house