Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's door.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth
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One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He invites future injuries who rewards past ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about future, past
He that lives with wolves, must howl with wolves.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness
He must gape wide who would gape against an oven.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day
A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man
The candle that goes before gives the best light.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about light
He who burns his posteriors must sit on blisters.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Just toss it in my hat and I'll sort it tomorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Misfortunes, when asleep, are not to be awakened.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word, man
The fox never fares better than when he's bann'd.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fire, fire brigade
A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about books
