Proverbs and old sayings, page 631

43575 proverbs and old sayings

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

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad, children, good, good luck

He that hires one garden eats birds; he that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about garden

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about night, contentment

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about tools, man

It is not for my own sake, said the fox, that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god

It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry, christmas, children, time, good, good luck

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man

Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad, contentment

Things never go so well that someone should have no fear, nor so bad that someone should have no hope.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, fear, things, bad luck, bad