The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall
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Bad company, said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies, thieves, bad luck, bad
The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children
Learn thou of learned men, th' unlearned of thee; for thus must knowledge propagated be.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about knowledge, man
Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about love, good, good luck
Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young wife, are always in strife.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house, man, old, olderness
Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife
Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people, eyes
Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about moral, sleep, good, good luck
Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about courage, honour, soul, wealth, nothing
He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart, woman
It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about life, good, good luck
Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels).
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money
He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, good, good luck
An old hen makes strong soup.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness
Never throw the cat at the dog.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
