Benefits grow old betimes, but injuries are long livers.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about old, olderness
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Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about flowers
He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
Praise borrowed from ancestors is but very sorry praise.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, ancestors
Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about enemies
He must keep a sharp look-out who would speak the truth.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about truth
Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about joy, bad luck, day, bad, good, good luck
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, honesty
Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about intelligence
It is not every man that can carry a falcon on his hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Tell nothing to thy friend which why enemy may not know.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about enemies, nothing
He who lives without restraint, will die without honour.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about honour, death
There were never fewer nobles than when all would be so.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, suffering, truth
It's no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day
It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat's ear.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The owl does not praise the light, nor the wolf the dog.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, light
It is hard to pay for bread that has already been eaten.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
However high a bird may soar, it seeks its food on earth.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about food, earth
