It is hard to swim against the stream, [338]

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks, [361]

It is hard to teach old dogs to bark, [137], [336]

It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean, [356]

It is harder work getting to hell than to heaven, [154]

It is ill catching hares with drums, [324]

It is ill sailing against wind and tide, [338]

It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked, [196]

It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning, [20]

It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish, [221]