Proverbs and old sayings, page 613

43575 proverbs and old sayings

The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day

It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat's ear.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The owl does not praise the light, nor the wolf the dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, light

It is hard to pay for bread that has already been eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

However high a bird may soar, it seeks its food on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about food, earth

Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man's eyes water.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about smoke, eyes, water, good, good luck, man

Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about advice

The young pig must often suffer for what the old sow did.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about suffering, old, olderness

A boor remains a boor even if sleeping on silken pillows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the word is in the mouth you must caress the sheath.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word, contentment

When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about danger

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the gorse is out of bloom, kissing's out of fashion.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about kiss, fashion

He must have clean fingers who would blow another's nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Happy he who can take warning from the mishaps of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about happiness

Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day, man

No one is so rich that he can do without a good neighbor.

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