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No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about fishing, water, contentment

A stepmother has a hard hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Better blow hard than burn yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Love and poverty are hard to conceal.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about poverty, love

You cannot pull hard with a broken rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

It is hard to labour with an empty belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

A hard bit does not make the better horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fire, fire brigade

The bird once out of hand is hard to recover.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to live in Rome and strive against the Pope.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water

No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper who has got into power.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about power

It has been blowing hard--the dirt has been blown into high places.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish