It is not work that kills but worry. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- From bad to worse.
- Our day will come.
- One man's meat is another man's poison.
- It never rains but it pours.
- A drowning man will catch at a straw.
- Fortune is blind.
- Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
- Misfortunes never come alone.
- Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
- While the grass grows, the horse starves.
- He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a tea-cup.
- Every flow has its ebb.
- Bread never falls but on its buttered side.
- Whom God loves, his bitch brings forth pigs.
- Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good bone.
- Rust eats up iron.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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Care killed the cat.
- Care brings grey hair.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Mala senium accelerant.
The evils of the old accelerate.
French
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Les soucis font blanchir les cheveux de bonne heure.
Worry turns the hair white early.
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Ce n'est pas l'âge, mais le malheur qui vieillit.
It's not age, but misfortune that ages us.
Czech
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Ne tak starostí šedivějí vlasy jako starostmi.
It's not so much worry that turns the hair grey as worry.