Proverbs and old sayings Dutch, page 29

1326 proverbs and old sayings dutch

Talk of the wolf and his tail appears.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that loves his child chastises him.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children

A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A fool by chance may say a wise thing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about chance, things

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A fool may chance to say a wise thing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about chance, things

An inch too short is as bad as a yard.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about garden, bad luck, bad

An inch too short is as bad as an ell.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bad luck, bad

After great droughts come great rains.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Every man thinks his own owl a falcon.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

Put not all your eggs into one basket.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

God deliver me from a man of one book.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about god, man

One tale is good till another is told.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fairy tales, good, good luck

Every one is a thief in his own craft.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

To make an elephant out of a mosquito.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A man overboard, a mouth less to feed.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

Standing with the mouth full of teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is good fishing in troubled waters.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fishing, good, good luck

It is good sailing with wind and tide.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck

Hens like to lay when they see an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch