Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 92

5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You may force an ox to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You may shut your doors against a thief, but not against a liar.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

If you play with the fool at home, he will play with you abroad.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You must judge a maiden at the kneading trough, and not in a dance.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Though you teach a wolf the paternoster, he will say Lamb! Lamb!

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

A small fire that warms you, is better than a large one that burns you.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

He that you seat upon your shoulder will often try to get upon your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Act so in the valley, that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Buy him at his own price and sell him at yours and you'll make no bargain.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

If you build according to every man's advice, you will have a crooked house.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as a hypocrite.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

What you are is God's gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment