INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.
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.