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Better return half way than lose yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is better to blow than burn your mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It's hard to catch hawks with empty hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap

Was, flax, and tin; much in and little in.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the pot boils over it cooleth itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

In the land of the blind, one-eye is king.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about blind

Too much of one thing is good for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things, nothing, good, good luck

Darkness and night are mothers of thought.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thinking, night

When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The worse the carpenter the more the chips.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The praise of fools is censure in disguise.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about praise

Beggars mounted ride their horses to death.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the stomach is full the heart is glad.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heart

He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word, sun

Promising is one thing, performing another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things

The worth of a thing Is what it will bring.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap, fishing

The tree does not fall at the first stroke.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall