He that is at sea has not the wind in his hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
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When the cat's away, it is jubilee with the mice.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about peasantry
With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment
Folly hath eagle's wings, but the eyes of an owl.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about eyes
He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
When the tree falls every one runs to cut boughs.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
You've got to stare the cat down out of the tree.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment
A man without money is like a ship without sails.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about money, man
One rotten apple in the basket infects the whole.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's door.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth
One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He invites future injuries who rewards past ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about future, past
He that lives with wolves, must howl with wolves.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sadness
He must gape wide who would gape against an oven.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day
A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
