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For the lazy and the poor, everything always takes twice the effort.

Proverbs and old sayings

A lazy man works twice.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about man

Tomorrow says the lazy.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Winter comes fast on the lazy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fasting

The lazy pig does not eat ripe pears.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The lazy one stands up between one armchair and another.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about death, man

Be sure to send a lazy man for the angel of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about death, man

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about death, man

Offer the lazy an egg, and they'll want you to peel it for them.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian

Offer the lazy man an egg, and he'll want you to peel it for him.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about man

The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, I hope I will not find one.

Proverbs and old sayings about hope, man

The lazy work twice as much.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about work

The lazy is a brother of the begger.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

The lazy ox drinks dirty water.

Proverbs and old sayings about water, americans

The lazy man is apt to be envious.

Proverbs and old sayings Omaha about man

The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid one.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about proudness

A good borrower is a lazy payer.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about good, good luck

A lazy woman is never virtuous.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman