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Hunger, work, and sweat are the best herbs.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about hunger, work

The sweat of one's brow is what burns everyone.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

He who sweats more in peace, bleeds less in war.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about war, peace

A woman who cries, a man who swears, a horse that sweats, all imposture.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, man

A friend will wipe away sweat but not blood.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood

God promised me a fur coat, and I am already sweating.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about god

No sweet without some sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Eat till you sweat and work till you freeze.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about work, contentment

The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about peasantry, rightness

For the man a great sweat, for the woman a great physical pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about pain, woman, man

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it will make you sweat a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Tahitian about ignorance, contentment

It takes sweat to work on things, but it only takes saliva to criticize things.

Proverbs and old sayings Taiwanese about things, work

Who enters the Turkish bath will sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Blood is the sweat of heroes.

Proverbs and old sayings about blood

If two brothers fight over their father's land, it is a stranger who will enjoy there sweat and labour.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight

The earth is not thirsty for the blood of the warriors but for the sweat of man's labor.

Proverbs and old sayings Brazilian about blood, earth, man

Sometimes life can be as bitter as dragon tears. But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweat depends entirely on how each man perceives them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about tears, bitter, life, man

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about blood

Ignorance doesn't necessarily kill you but it makes you sweat a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about ignorance, contentment

The best blessing for a good harvest is a pumpkin full of sweat.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck