Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sky, fall
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Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, hunger, mother
With your hat in your hand you can travel the entire country.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about country
An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about devil, home, house
When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fight
When Want comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about love
Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things
When the ox falls, there are many that will help to kill him.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about help
Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wine
'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wisdom
He was born upon St. Galtpert's night, three days before luck.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, bad luck, good luck, night
The cost is high of the honey that must be licked from thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies
He that spares something to-day will have something to-morrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day
The world's a stage; each plays his part, and takes his share.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about world
He who mixes himself with the draff will be eaten by the swine.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, wealth
