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Partnership is an invention of the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about invention, devil

The devil is not as scary as they paint him.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil

The devil is not so frighful as he is painted.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil

If God sends you meal, the devil takes the sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil, god, contentment

If the devil catch a man idle he'll set him at work.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about trap, work, devil, man

He took the devil's mat, but he'll pay back with his skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about devil

Go to the Devil for Gods-sake.

Proverbs and old sayings about gods, devil

It is a sin to lye on the Devil.

Proverbs and old sayings about sin, devil

Seldom lies the Devil dead by the dike side.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

It that God will give, the Devil cannot reave.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, god

Ye have a face to God, and another to the Devil.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, god, face

Sain you will fra the Devil, and the Lairds bairns.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, contentment

Ye would doe little for God, and the Devil were dead.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, god

Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the sow.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil

The devil's boots don't creak.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil

An idle brain is the devil's shop.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about brain, devil

The Devil's a busy bishop in his own diocese.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil

Never go to the devil and a dish-clout in your hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil

If the Devil were dead, folk would do little for God's sake.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil, god

Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil, home, house