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A hired horse and one's own spurs make short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Set a beggar on horseback, and he don't trot, but gallops.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about life, good, good luck

A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word, home, house

It is too late to lock the stable door when the horses have already been stolen.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

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

No hoof, no horse.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Don't change horses in mid stream.

Proverbs and old sayings English about change

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Proverbs and old sayings English

It's a good horse that never stumbles.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck

Hang not all your bells upon one horse!

Proverbs and old sayings English

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Proverbs and old sayings English about blind, good, good luck

He that cannot beat the horse beats the saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Proverbs and old sayings English

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment