Hard TimesOne worth keeping
“A hungry man don't wait for the gate to open, he climbs the fence.”
Folks fleeing hard times will keep pushing past barriers even when danger's plain to see.
In the same vein
All Hard Times →A tough job that only gets done one painful foot at a time.
Fend for yourself, because nobody's coming to feed you.
Can't take from someone what they simply don't have.
Life alternates between hitting and being hit.
Everything's going wrong in both directions at once.
Fix it, stretch it, or learn to live with the hole.