It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness
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An envious man waxes lean with the fatness of his neighbour.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man
Where the dike (or dam) is lowest the water first runs over.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about water
In eating 'tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck
Bear patiently that which thou sufferest by thine own fault.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about night, god, day
When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fight
Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
The master's eye and foot are the best manure for the field.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
One does it for love, another for honour, a third for money.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about honour, money, love
He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fire, fire brigade
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about beginning, end
Don't throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness, contentment
From the cradle to the tomb, Not all gladness, not all gloom.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He heed have plenty of meal who would stop every man's mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man
The fly flutters about the candle till at last it gets burnt.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sky, fall
Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, hunger, mother
With your hat in your hand you can travel the entire country.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about country, contentment
