Proverbs and old sayings, page 590

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Better to be a free bird than a captive king.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about opinion, people

Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day

Better cross an angry man than a fasting man.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fasting, man

Few there are that will endure a true friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Sickness comes in haste, and goes at leisure.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about war

Better to deny at once, than to promise long.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about promise

Donkeys only come to the court to carry bags.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about diets, hope

Always to be sparing is always to be in want.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is a wise child that knows its own father.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children

Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about envy

To have a woman is bad; to lose her is worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about woman, bad luck, bad

Better in an old carriage than in a new ship.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

Nothing is so new but it has happened before.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about nothing

He must be ill-favoured who scares the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

Don't sail out farther than you can row back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad