Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Not Easy

It is not easy to know your butter in another man’s cabbage.Danish.

It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate.Danish.

It is not easy to show the way to a blind man.Italian.

It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw.Danish.

It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.Gaelic.

It is not easy to walk on the devil’s ice.Danish.