Proverbs and old sayings Dutch, page 50

1326 proverbs and old sayings dutch

If he waits long enough the world will be his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about world

We hang little thieves, and let great ones escape.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

When the husband earns well, the wife spends well.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about husband, wife

He earns a farthing and has a penn'orth of thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better one eye-witness than ten hearsay witnesses.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Between two stools the breech comes to the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about art, magic, money

It's good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint.

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

Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about magic

What the farmer doesn't recognize, he doesn't eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Reynard is still Reynard, though he put on a cowl.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about moral

It is a bad well that you have to fill with water.

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

The innkeeper trusts his guests like he is himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

They understand one another like thieves in a fair.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

He would rather have a bumper in hand than a Bible.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that would have the kernel must crack the shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart

A hired horse and one's own spurs make short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch