A deaf husband and a blind wife will always make a happy couple.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife
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Where money and counsel are wanting, it is best not to make war.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about moral, war, money
If you play with the fool at home, he will play with you abroad.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home, contentment
He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about thieves, children
That which has been thrown away has often to be begged for again.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about silence, woman
The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about value
The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man's back.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about shame, man
The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Many a thing whispered into one ear is heard over the whole town.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about city, things
He who will not prosper in his sleep will not prosper when awake.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sleep
It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance
Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fishing
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
The fire doesn't care about the owner of the coat that is burning.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fire, fire brigade
He who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, mother, heart
Had it not been for an if, the old woman would have bitten a wolf.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about woman, old, olderness
