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Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Benefits grow old betimes, but injuries are long livers.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

There are simple remedies for sausages that are too long.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Great lords have long hands, but they do not reach to heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Deep draughts, and long morning slumbers, soon make a man poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wife

He needs a long spoon that would eat out of the same dish with the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon files into it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'. [Long tarrying takes all the thanks away. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

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

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

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about night, contentment

Not a long day, but a good heart, rids work.

Proverbs and old sayings about work, heart, day, good, good luck

Making a long nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He lives long who lives well.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Short reckonings make long friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It's a long lane that has no turning.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

What is long spoken of happens at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch