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| Danish Proverb - I
"I am a judge of cresses," said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock."I'll go myself," and "I'll see to it," are two good servants on a farm."It is easy to work with a good comb," said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork.""It is not for my own sake," said the fox, "that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.""It will come back," said the man, when he gave his sow pork.I would rather see smoke from my own chimney than the fire on another's hearth.Idleness is the devil's bolster.If a beard were all, the goat would be the winner.If a man has folly in his sleeve, it will be sure to peep out.If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.If God give not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls.If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow.If lies are to find credence, they must be patched with truth.If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men.If the beard were all, the goat might preach.If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about.If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue.If you cannot get the bird, get one of its feathers.If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it open.If you have learnt to wait, you may be Queen of Sweden.If you play with the fool at home, he will play with you abroad.If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell.If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese.Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the longest.In still water are the largest fish.In still water the worms are worst.In still waters are the largest fish.In still waters are the largest fish.In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange manger.It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes.It does not depend upon the dog when the horse shall die.It has been blowing hard--the dirt has been blown into high places.It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head.It is a bad hen that lays her eggs away from the farm.It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.It is a bad well that need water to be carried to it.It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat's ear.It is a great art to laugh at you own misfortune.It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest.It is a poor horse that is not worth his oats.It is a poor roast that gives no dripping.It is an ill turn that does no good to any one.It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.It is as well to be naked as to have no covering.It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs.It is bad iron in which there is no steel.It is bad to be between two fires.It is bad to lean against a falling wall.It is best to play with equals.It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it.It is bitter fare to eat one's own words.It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger.It is difficult to trap an old fox.It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one.It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eye.It is easier to stem the brook than the river.It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him.It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom.It is easy to manage when fortune favors.It is easy to poke another man's fire.It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head.It is folly to drown on dry land.It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into your own.It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.It is good to lend to God and to the soil--they pay good interest.It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.It is hard to labour with an empty belly.It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands.It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth.It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water.It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean.It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an enemy.It is not all gold that glitters.It is not all who turn their backs that flee.It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad.It is not easy to know your butter in another man's cabbage.It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate.It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw.It is not easy to walk upon the devil's ice.It is not every hog that the crow will ride.It is not every man that can carry a falcon on his hand.It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear.It is not for nothing that the devil lays himself down in the ditch.It is not for the good of the cow when she is driven in a carriage.It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing.It is not the surplice that makes parson or clerk.It is of no use making shoes for geese.It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair.It is pleasant driving when there is no danger of upsetting.It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck.It is safe to lend barley to him who has oats.It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey.It is time enough to take off your hat when you see the man.It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned.It is too late to cry cat, when the bacon is eaten.It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down.It is useless to gape against an oven.It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.It is well to have clean bread in one's wallet.It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.It needs a high wall to keep out fear.It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.It takes a good many mice to kill a cat.It takes many words to fill a sack.Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning. |
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