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Death and taxes may be hard to beat.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about death, americans

Friends and mules fail us in hard places.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about garden, life, americans

Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about sleep, work, people

He that brings good news, knocks hard.

Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck

It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell.

Proverbs and old sayings British

To bow the body is easy, to bow the will is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings British about body

Fire makes mud hard and gold melt.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fire, fire brigade

Forethought is easy, repentance hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Once on a tiger's back it is hard to alight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A good drum does not have to be beaten hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about good, good luck

The door to virtue is heavy and hard to open.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue

Easy to believe in heaven's law, but so hard to keep.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about faith, law

Water thrown out is hard to put back into the container.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

To open a shop is easy -- the hard part is keeping it open.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

It is easy to open a store -- the hard part is keeping it open.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about stores

Once you pour the water out of the bucket it's hard to get it back in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water, contentment

We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha's feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about end, contentment

Mothers-in-law are hard of hearing.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about law