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Death is a giant against whom even the Tsars must draw weapons.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about death

Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about rightness, death

Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar just as easily as a light beggar.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about light, death

Death defies the doctors.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about death

Death and marriage make term-days.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about marriage, day, death

Death and drink-draining are near neighbours.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about drinking, death

Death will cure all pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about pain, death

Death finds everyone and the earth renews itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about earth, death

Death and bad luck, you take them with you wherever you go.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, good luck, death, bad

Death respects neither young nor old, neither poor nor rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about death, wealth, old, olderness

Death is the key that will open a miser's coffers.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

Death is the reaper who doesn't take a midday nap.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about death

Death is blind.

Proverbs and old sayings about blind, death

Death has its advantages too ie it benifits those who inherit.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

Death is God's broom.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about death, god

Death is the last doctor.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about death

Death is the black camel that kneels before every door.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic, death

Death considers not the fairest forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about death

Death does not knock on the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about death

Death has no modesty.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death, modesty