Sparrows should not dance with cranes, their legs are too short.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance
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One hand full of money is stronger than two hands full of truth.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about truth, money
He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
He must have plenty of butter, who would stop everybody's mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
A donkey that carries a lot of books is not necessarily learned.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about books
Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about pray, god, good, good luck
A cross-grained woman and a snappish dog take care of the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home, house, woman
He is little suited to be a baker, whose head is made of butter.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
To cut into another's man's ear is like cutting into a felt hat.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
A deaf husband and a blind wife will always make a happy couple.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife
Where money and counsel are wanting, it is best not to make war.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about moral, war, money
If you play with the fool at home, he will play with you abroad.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home
He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about thieves, children
That which has been thrown away has often to be begged for again.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about silence, woman
The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about value
The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man's back.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about shame, man
The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
