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If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about death, contentment

You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

One penny is better on land than ten on the sea.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Sickness comes uninvited--no need to bespeak it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about need

While the dogs yelp, the hare flies to the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A silent man's words are not brought into court.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word, man

He came time enough who was hung by candlelight.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about time

What is play to the strong is death to the weak.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about death

Every man must go to the mill with his own sack.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

To bait and to grease does not retard a journey.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

To know the law and do the right are two things.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law, rightness, things

You can't take a cow from a man who has no cows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man, contentment

Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbour.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck, man

Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bitter, sin

Without eating and drinking the hero is no good.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heroism, drinking, good, good luck

It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Old swine have hard snouts, old oxen hard horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness

Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the longest.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish