Proverbs and old sayings, page 694

43575 proverbs and old sayings

He must have crept out of hell while the devil was asleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about hell, devil

A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house

He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

In the division of inheritance, friendship standeth still.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about friendship

An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose's egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that hath a head of butter must not come near the oven.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heads

He that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about peasantry

Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about love

Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fear

One penny in the pot makes more noise than when it is full.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about soul

Pastors come for your wine and officers for your daughters.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wine

He that saves something today will have something tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about need, eyes

Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about kiss, enemies

The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

Don't throw away your own shoes till you have got new ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment

He studies the Bible of fifty-two leaves (a pack of cards).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch