Proverbs and old sayings, page 600

43575 proverbs and old sayings

A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A foul mouth must be provided with a strong back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the mouse has had enough the meal is bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bitter

A threatened man lives long, if he can get bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hunger, commerce

Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who would hang himself is sure to find a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who would leap far must first take a long run.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that holds is no better than he that scourges.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A lord without land, is like a cask without wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wine

From children and drunks will you hear the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, truth, contentment

All wish to live long, but none to be called old.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wish, old, olderness

It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You cannot make a good archbishop out of a rogue.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck, contentment

A friend's faults may be notices, but not blamed.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A head is not to be cut off because it is scabby.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

A lass that has many wooers often fares the worst.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about art, magic

A truth-teller finds the doors closed against him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about truth

The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children