Proverbs and old sayings, page 675

43575 proverbs and old sayings

You can't shoe a horse while it is running.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment

Milk the cow, but don't pull off the udder.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Great gaps may be filled with small stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Good company on a journey is worth a coach.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies, good, good luck

The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fishing, day

It flows like a fountain from a broomstick.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A friend is better than money in the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money

Stock-fish are made tender by much beating.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fishing

When God pleases, it rains with every wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about god

'Tis best woo where a man can see the smoke.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about smoke, man

Care is the mother of the porcelain cabinet.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about mother

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better belly burst than good victuals spoil.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck

The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

'Tis well that wicked cows have short horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

There is a remedy for all things save death.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death, things

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

He who throws the ball, must expect it back.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch