Don't sell the bearskin before the bear is dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about commerce
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When one hand washes another, both become clean.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Don't sell the skin till you've caught the bear.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about commerce, contentment
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about things
When the husband earns well the wife spins well.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about husband, wife
When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about rest
Everything has an end with the exception of God.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about end, god
Better one bird in the hand than ten in the sky.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sky
Better reap two days too soon than one too late.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day
Where there's no good within, no good comes out.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck
He that tickles himself, may laugh when he will.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Who is tired of happy days, let him take a wife.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, happiness, wife
The mouse that hath but one hold is soon caught.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He who would gather roses, must not fear thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fear
A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Hew not too high, lest a chip fall in thine eye.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fall
He who hunts two hares at once, catches neither.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Wasting is a bad habit, saving is a sure income.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about habits, bad luck, bad
He that will have eggs, must bear with cackling.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about trap
