Let him who would reach another a brand, beware that he do not burn his own hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
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You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
When the government has no ears to listen with, then she has no head for governing.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fire, fire brigade, bad luck, bad
We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about patience, wife, man
Ladies have ladies' whims. said crazy Ann, when she draggled her cloak in the gutter.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about woman
It is a bad idea to take a thorn out of someone else's foot and put it into your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about idea, bad luck, bad
You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about conscience, contentment
Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water
Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, man
Almost a hit, said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about need, man
You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment
Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad, children, good, good luck
He that hires one garden eats birds; he that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about garden
You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about night, contentment
