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43574 proverbs and old sayings

The tree is sure to be pruned before it reaches the skies.

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Vice is most dangerous when it puts on the garb of virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about vice, virtue

A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sleep

He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in cheek.

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He that cuts above himself, will get splinters in his eye.

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The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.

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A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

One should speak little with others and much with oneself.

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Another man's horse and your own whip can do a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god

Falsehood, like a nettle, stings those who meddle with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie

It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad.

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He does not live in this world that can skin a grindstone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about world

Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about saints

He who will not obey father, will have to obey stepfather.

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He that wants to hang a dog, says that it bites the sheep.

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You may call that your own which no one can take from you.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It will come back, said the man, when he gave his sow pork.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish