Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace there is plenty.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about virtue, peace
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A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon files into it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Own kin are the worst friends, said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Suffering and patience, obedience and application, help the lowly born to honour.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about suffering, honour, patience, help
Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'. [Long tarrying takes all the thanks away. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Let him who would reach another a brand, beware that he do not burn his own hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
When the government has no ears to listen with, then she has no head for governing.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fire, fire brigade, bad luck, bad
We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about patience, wife, man
Ladies have ladies' whims. said crazy Ann, when she draggled her cloak in the gutter.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about woman
It is a bad idea to take a thorn out of someone else's foot and put it into your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about idea, bad luck, bad
You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about conscience, contentment
Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water
Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, man
Almost a hit, said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about need, man
