=No pains, no gains.=
=No sweat, no sweet.=
=No mill, no meal.=
From the Latin, "Qui vitat molam, vitat farinam." "To stop the hand is
the way to stop the mouth" (Chinese).
=He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut.=--_Scotch._
=He that gapes till he be fed will gape till he be dead.=
=Naethin is got without pains but dirt and lang nails.=--_Scotch._
"Good luck enters by dint of cuffs" (Spanish).[300] Success in life is
only to be won by hard striving.
"The nimble runner courses Fortune down,
And then he banquets, for she feeds the brave."
=An idle brain's the deil's smiddy.=--_Scotch._
=An idle brain's the devil's workshop.=
"By doing nothing we learn to do mischief" (Latin).[301] "He that
labours is tempted by one devil, he that is idle by a thousand"
(Italian).[302]
=Idle dogs worry sheep.=
=Sloth is the key of poverty.=
=Lazy folks take the most pains.=
"The dog in the kennel barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not
feel them" (Chinese).
=Who so busy as he that has nothing to do?=
The Italians compare such a one to a pig's tail that is going all day,
and by night has done nothing.
=Seldom lies the deil dead by the dyke side.=--_Scotch._
You are not to expect that difficulties and dangers will vanish without
any effort of your own.