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It is hard to sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He that ance gets his fingers i' the dirt can hardly get them out again.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There's no iron so hard that rust won't fret it; and there's no cloth so fine that moths won't eat it.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Freedom is a plateful of hard crusts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

In hard times priests are in great demand.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Whoever sows on hard ground, needs good wishes and luck.

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

A melon and a woman are hard to know.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman

He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about secret

A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hunger, man

Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fall

After hardship comes relief.

Proverbs and old sayings

What doesn't kill, hardens.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Children's bread is hard to chew.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about children

The older buck gets, the harder become its horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

A hard-working man is worth more than a crowd of loafers.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about man

It is hard work to be the mother of many pigs.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about work, mother

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverbs and old sayings

He has hard work who has nothing to do.

Proverbs and old sayings about work, nothing

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about work, nothing