Proverbs and old sayings, page 614

43574 proverbs and old sayings

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about friendship, blood

You may speak with your gold and make other tongues silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about enemies

The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

If there is room in your heart there is room in your house.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home, house, heart

The corn that is taken to a bad mill. will be badly ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad

Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children

He that performs his own errand saves the messenger's hire.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait.

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

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, good luck

Shame comes to no man unless he himself help it on the way.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about shame, help, man

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about ancestors

He is my friend that succoureth me, not he that pitieth me.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, good luck

The mouth often utters that which the head must answer for.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad

It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is pleasant driving when there is no danger of upsetting.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about danger

The stone that everybody spits upon will be wet at the last.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish