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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, children, mother, love, contentment

Better make a short circuit than to wet your hose.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You cannot make a good hunting-horn of a pig's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck, contentment

A borrowed horse and your own spurs make short miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about enemies, good, good luck

Onions, smoke, and a shrew, make a good man's eyes water.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about smoke, eyes, water, good, good luck, man

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

You may speak with your gold and make other tongues silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about prison

Drive not too many ploughs at once, some will make foul work.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about work

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

He who would make a fool of himself will find many to like him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about force, police, drinking, water, contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about drinking, water, contentment

A deaf husband and a blind wife will always make a happy couple.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife

An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about force, police, drinking, water, contentment

Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law