When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
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Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth
Set a beggar on horseback, and he don't trot, but gallops.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He must have crept out of hell while the devil was asleep.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about hell, devil
A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness
A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house
He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
In the division of inheritance, friendship standeth still.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about friendship
An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose's egg.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He that hath a head of butter must not come near the oven.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heads
He that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about peasantry
Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about love
Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fear
One penny in the pot makes more noise than when it is full.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about soul
Pastors come for your wine and officers for your daughters.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wine
He that saves something today will have something tomorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about need, eyes
Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about kiss, enemies
