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Sweat makes good mortar.

Proverbs and old sayings German about good, good luck

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about ignorance, contentment

If someone sweats for you, you change his shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about change, contentment

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about mediocrity

The frog does not eat hot chillies for the lizard to sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who builds with sweat, defends with blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about blood

No sweat, no sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Better give birth to a sweating baby than a laughing one.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Behind every sweaty face of a cattle rustler is a story of determination and courage.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about determination, courage, face

You know a man by the sweat of his brow and the strength of his word.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, man, contentment

No sweet without sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings

The more you sweat in Peacetime, The less you bleed during War.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about war, contentment

A drop of sweat spent in a drill is a drop of blood saved in a battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about blood

A sweaty foot seldom comes alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings English about stupidity, contentment

Who works in sweat will eat with appetite.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

The coward sweats in water.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about water

The lazy sweat when they eat and complain of the cold when they work.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about work

Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

The donkey sweats so the horse can be decorated with lace.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian