An hungry louse bites sore. [ Proverb ]
Babbling curs never want sore ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To touch a sore; to renew one's grief. [ Ter ]
Make the plaster as large as the sore. [ Proverb ]
A small matter hurts one that is sore. [ Proverb ]
A small sore wants not a great plaister. [ Proverb ]
Seek your salve where you got your sore. [ Proverb ]
I will give you a shirt full of sore bones. [ Proverb ]
Though the sore be healed, yet a scar may remain. [ Proverb ]
Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be sore. [ Proverb ]
That is a prodigious plaister for so small a sore. [ Proverb ]
One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. [ French Proverb ]
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Necessity is a sore penance; and extremity is as hard to bear as death. [ Cantacuzenus ]
Life was never a May-game for men; not play at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore. [ Carlyle ]
On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. [ Carlyle ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]