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Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you're dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hell, contentment

They put the blabbermouth in hell, and he shouted The wood is damp!

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about hell

A slattern woman hold open the door to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about hell, woman

Repay evil with good, and hell will not claim you.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about hell, good, good luck, contentment

Heaven and hell can both be found on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about hell, earth

It is better to be in hell with a wise man than in heaven with an idiot.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about hell, man

Optimism is a mania for saying all is well when one is in hell.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about optimism, hell

He who crosses a bridge to paradise and blows it after him is going to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about paradise, hell

A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell. Why are you burning damp wood? was his first comment.

Proverbs and old sayings about hell, man, contentment

Empty the clear path to heaven, crowded the dark road to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark, hell

If you do good to the Devil, out of gratitude he will deliver you to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about gratitude, hell, devil, contentment, good, good luck

The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities to his corpse; the dead in hell has too much else to grieve for.

Proverbs and old sayings about hell, happiness

There are people who deserve paradise for their thoughts, and hell for their deeds.

Proverbs and old sayings about paradise, deeds, hell, people

A man's will can be his paradise, but it can also be his hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about paradise, hell, man

When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about gifts, hell, contentment

Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, hell, peace

Everyone is given the key to the gates of Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about hell

There's nobody can prevent you getting into heaven, but there are many always ready to give you a shove into hell.

Proverbs and old sayings about hell, contentment

A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hell, woman, man, old, olderness