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More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

People must eat, even were every tree a gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

A man's character reaches town before his person.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about city, character, people, man

Young people must be taught, old ones be honoured.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people, old, olderness

More people are slain by supper than by the sword.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people, contentment

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about destiny, people

A person's character reaches town before the person does.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about city, character, people

The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness, people

Showing off other people's feathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people

The third person makes good company.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about companies, people, good, good luck

A cheeky person owns half the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about world, people

Beware of the person with two faces.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people

An understanding person needs only half a word.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word, people

The death of one person means bread for another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death, people

Wise people can't answer the most foolish questions.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people

Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about people, eyes

A person looks only on the outside of things; god looks into the very heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, things, heart, god

An absent person has his excuse.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about absent, people