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A hard knot requires a hard wedge.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

To a hard knot a hard wedge.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is not hard to nurse a pregnency, but it is hard to bring up a child.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen about contentment

Once you have decided to hit someone, then hit them hard because the retribution will be the same whether you hit hard or not.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Me do not know hard firewood, but only lops people put aside hard tasks and devote themselves only to easy ones.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about contentment

Old habits die hard.

Proverbs and old sayings British about habits, death, old, olderness

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

Proverbs and old sayings British about beginning, good, good luck

It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about beginning

On earth it's hard and heaven is far away.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about earth

The start of weeping is always hard.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It's always hard to convince a hungry person.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

For one to succeed in life, one has to work hard.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about work, life

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade

A man who does no hard work will never know the value of rest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about value, rest, work, man

It is hard even for the most selfish man to eat fish in the darkness.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fishing, man

It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, life