A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about tools, man
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It is not for my own sake, said the fox, that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck
If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about god
It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry, christmas, children, time, good, good luck
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man
Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad, contentment
Things never go so well that someone should have no fear, nor so bad that someone should have no hope.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hope, fear, things, bad luck, bad
No one is so tall that he never needs to stretch, and no one is so short that he never needs to stoop.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The issue of all contention is uncertain. [Witness the glorious uncertainty of the law, and of the turf. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law
When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about dance, rain, old, olderness
It is easy to work with a good comb, said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about work, mother, devil, good, good luck
There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things, good, good luck
As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about lie, contentment
Bare is brotherless back.
Proverbs and old sayings
Eggs should not fight stones.
Proverbs and old sayings about fight
Necessity could make a thief.
Proverbs and old sayings about thieves
Grief unspoken turns to poison.
Proverbs and old sayings about sadness
One lamp can't light two houses.
Proverbs and old sayings about light
Where vice is vengeance follows.
Proverbs and old sayings about vice
Wear no sword at kinsman's board.
Proverbs and old sayings
