He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water
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Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, man
Almost a hit, said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about need, man
You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad, children, good, good luck
He that hires one garden eats birds; he that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about garden
You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about night
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about tools, man
It is not for my own sake, said the fox, that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck
If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god
It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry, christmas, children, time, good, good luck
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man
Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad
Things never go so well that someone should have no fear, nor so bad that someone should have no hope.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, fear, things, bad luck, bad
No one is so tall that he never needs to stretch, and no one is so short that he never needs to stoop.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The issue of all contention is uncertain. [Witness the glorious uncertainty of the law, and of the turf. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law
When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance, rain, old, olderness
It is easy to work with a good comb, said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about work, mother, devil, good, good luck
