There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his own tale.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fairy tales, need
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It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
If 'almost' did not exist, said the woman, than I would have shot a hare.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about woman
Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence come all our nobles.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as a hypocrite.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about world, god, contentment
Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
He is a fool that praises himself, and he a madman that speaks ill of himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the spit.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about kitchen
He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about food
I would rather see smoke from my own chimney than the fire on another's hearth.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about smoke, fire, fire brigade
A slip of the foot may soon be recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
What you are is God's gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about gifts, god, contentment
A man has two ears and one mouth; he therefore should listen more than he talks.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace there is plenty.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about virtue, peace
A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon files into it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Own kin are the worst friends, said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Suffering and patience, obedience and application, help the lowly born to honour.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about suffering, honour, patience, help
Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'. [Long tarrying takes all the thanks away. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
