He that would jest must take a jest, else to let it along were best.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
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Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about earth
I wot well how the world wags, He is most loved that hath most bags.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about world
Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about rain
What good serve candle and glasses, if the owl does not want to see.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck
When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about nation, wisdom, god
A bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about food
When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about poverty, work
Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about moral
When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death, god, man
All is well: for if the bride has not fair hair, she has a fair skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
One should not think about it too much when marrying or taking pills.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
It is too late to cry Hold hard! when the arrow has left the bow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
The devil's in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about devil
Who can escape envy and blame, that speaks or writes for public fame?
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about public, fame, envy
Great cry and little wool, quoth the devil, when he sheared his hogs.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about devil
When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sleep
He that finds something before it is lost, will die before he is sick.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death
Sweep in front of your own door before you look after your neighbor's.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Even if a monkey wears a golden ring, it is and remains an ugly thing.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things
