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It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about blind

It is hard for an empty bag to stand itself alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When the old woman is hard pressed, she has to run.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman, old, olderness

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

'Tis as hard to see a woman cry, as a goose go barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

It is hard to hunt the hare out of the bush it is not in.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It's as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

Don't be hard and don't be soft and don't desert your friend for your own share.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Without pressing too little or too hard, hold tight the reins for he's a fool who would not get value from a borrowed horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about value

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about hunger

Love, a cough, and smoke, are hard to hide.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke, love

That is pleasant to remember which was hard to endure.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about marriage

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about beginning

Beginning is easy -- to keep going is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about beginning

It's hard to know the quality of a person, or a watermelon.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about quality, people

The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

What's too hard for a man must be worth looking into.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about man

That of circumcision is a hard appointment.

Proverbs and old sayings

Hit them hard and hit them fast.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting