What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil
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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck, contentment
Kill no more than you can salt, or you will have tainted meat.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home, house
Better to have something yourself, than to beg of your sister.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Love's plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about tears, love
A glad heart seldom sighs, but a sorrowful mouth often laughs.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heart
A hundred waggonsful of sorrow will not pay a handful of debt.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sadness
He who has many irons in the fire, will let some of them burn.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fire, fire brigade
Luck taps at the door and inquires whether prudence is within.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about prudence, bad luck, good luck
He drives a good waggonful into his farm who gets a good wife.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wife, good, good luck
Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about advice, home, house, man
Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about intelligence
The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
A fair face will get its praise, though the owner keep silent.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, face
Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things, devil
If a man has folly in his sleeve, it will be sure to peep out.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
The chair on which a Dane is sitting is beautifully decorated.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Don't throw away dirty water before you have more clean water.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water, contentment
