Proverbs and old sayings Dutch, page 47

1326 proverbs and old sayings dutch

A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Hew not too high, lest a chip fall in thine eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall

He who hunts two hares at once, catches neither.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Wasting is a bad habit, saving is a sure income.

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

He that will have eggs, must bear with cackling.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that is at sea has not the wind in his hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the cat's away, it is jubilee with the mice.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about peasantry

With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Folly hath eagle's wings, but the eyes of an owl.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about eyes

He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the tree falls every one runs to cut boughs.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

You've got to stare the cat down out of the tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A man without money is like a ship without sails.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money, man

One rotten apple in the basket infects the whole.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He invites future injuries who rewards past ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about future, past

He that lives with wolves, must howl with wolves.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch