When the cat and the mouse agree the farmer doesn't stand a chance.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about chance
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The Lord will not fail to come, though he may not come on horseback.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
A good pilot is not known when the sea is calm and the weather fair.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about weather, good, good luck
Though you teach a wolf the paternoster, he will say Lamb! Lamb!
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the bone.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
I am a judge of cresses, said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry, judges
It is not for nothing that the devil lays himself down in the ditch.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, nothing
He who will not take cheap advice, will have to buy dear repentance.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about commerce, advice
Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law
If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He who would close another man's mouth, should first tie up his own.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
He who hunts two hares from one bush, is not likely to catch either.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He who stands near the woodcutter is likely to be hit by a splinter.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He who abuses others must not be particular about the answer he gets.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about intelligence, devil
The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness, people
When the host smiles most blandly he has an eye to the guest's purse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, good luck, man
He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about truth
