Proverbs and old sayings, page 611

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about mercy

Time is not tied to a post, like a horse to the manger.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about time

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about medicine, advice, death

It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about respect, contentment

He who tastes every man's broth, often burns his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

When it pours upon the parson, it drops upon the clerk.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the feed box is empty, the horses bite each other.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If you have learnt to wait, you may be Queen of Sweden.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about games, time

He that feeds himself from waiting could die of hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hunger, death

Communicate more with yourself than you do with others.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

The man who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

A hungry dog and a thirsty horse take no heed of blows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Everything has an end--except a sausage, which has two.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about end

It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about rightness

The eye of the master will do more than both his hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When every one minds his own business the work is done.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about affair, work