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A meagre compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is as well to be naked as to have no covering.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Speaking silence is better than senseless speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about silence

He must have much meal who would stop all mouths.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

The cow gives good milk, but kicks over the pail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He who wants to catch foxes must hunt with geese.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about trap

Don't sell the skin till you have caught the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about commerce, contentment

A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about drinking

Let another man praise thee, not thine own mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, man

When dirt comes to honour it know not what to be.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about honour

When the master hurts his foot the servants limp.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A foul mouth must be provided with a strong back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the mouse has had enough the meal is bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bitter

A threatened man lives long, if he can get bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hunger, commerce

Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish