Proverbs and old sayings Dutch, page 52

1326 proverbs and old sayings dutch

A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about kiss

He that will have the kernel, must crack the shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

There come as many calf-skins to market as ox-skins.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about stores

If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about rest

An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the same plough.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Wise people can't answer the most foolish questions.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people

They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

There is no point in combing where there is no hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Offer a clown your finger, and he'll take your fist.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about clowns

He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Whoso hunteth with cats will catch nothing but rats.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap, nothing

Who has no thirst has no business at the foundation.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about affair

Better a blush in the face than a spot in the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart, face

Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is easy to be liberal out of another man's purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Where there is nothing, the Emperor loses his right.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about rightness, nothing

Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch