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One can't enter Paradise in spite of the saints.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about paradise, saints

When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about saints, danger

A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about saints, wine

Even the saints' patience has its limits.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about limits, saints, patience

Home saints don't make miracles.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about saints, home

The old saints are forgotten in the new.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about saints, old, olderness

Before you find God, you will be eaten by saints.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about saints, god

They are not a' saints that get holy water.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about saints, water

You don't light candles to old saints.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about saints, light, old, olderness

How much is prestige worth, not as much as Palermo, if you take away the saints.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about prestige, saints

In small churches, small saints are big.

Proverbs and old sayings Slovenian about saints

When the fields yield not, the saints have not.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about saints

Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

You only know saints by their miracles.

Proverbs and old sayings about saints