Famous Proverbs
200 Proverbs about Pain / Page 7
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If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.62.
I have lanced many boils, but none pained like my own.63.
The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime.64.
The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.65.
He who looks up too much gets a pain in the neck.66.
A pain in the foot is soon forgotten -- a pain in the head is not.67.
If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.68.
A hundred "no's" are less painful than one insincere "yes."69.
Don't let your tongue or your paintbrush wag your tail when they are making up an inventory.70.
Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his skin; learn to know a human being and you only know his face.