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| Danish Proverb - T
Take advice of a red-bearded man, and be gone.Take help of many, advice of few.Take not your sickle to another man's corn.Ten noes are better then one lie.That bench is well adorned that is filled with virtuous women.That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.That may be soon done, which brings long repentance.That which comes with sin, goes with sorrow.That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish.That which has been thrown away has often to be begged for again.That which is stamped a penny will never be a pound.That which is unsaid, may be spoken; that which is said, cannot be unsaid.That which must be, will be.That's but an empty purse which is full of other men's money.Thaw reveals what has been hidden by snow.The anvil does not fear a good sledge-hammer.The belly gives no credit.The best advice is found on the pillow.The best manure is under the farmer's shoe.The bird once out of hand is hard to recover.The branch is seldom better than the stem.The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather.The cock often crows without a victory.The corn that is taken to a bad mill. will be badly ground.The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.The crow will find its mate.The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest.The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil.The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer.The dog will not get free by biting his chain.The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.The drunken man's joy is often the sober man's sorrow.The earth is always frozen to lazy swine.The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.The eye of the master makes the horse fat.The fat sow knows not what the hungry sow suffers.The fire burns brightest on one's own hearth.The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns.The fire is welcome within, when icicles hang without.The first bird get the first grain.The generous man grows rich in giving, the miser poor in taking.The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the spit.The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly.The goose that has lost its head no longer cackles.The greater the fear the nearer the danger.The is worthy of sweets, who has tasted bitters.The laggard cow gets the sour grass.The miller is never so drunk that he forgets to take his dues.The millstone that lies undermost also helps to grind.The miser's bag is never full.The more by law, the less by right.The more cooks, the worse broth.The more knave, the better luck.The more you stir filth the worse it stinks.The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold.The mouse is knowing, but the cat more knowing.The mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.The mouth often utters that which the head must answer for.The new is always liked, though the old is often better.The nobler the blood the less the pride.The owl does not praise the light, nor the wolf the dog.The owl thinks her children the fairest.The pike grows big on small fry.The poor man seeks for food, the rich man for appetite.The poor man wants much, the miser everything.The poor man's corm always grows thin.The pot boils best on your own hearth.The pride of the poor does not endure.The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough.The raven always thinks that her young ones are the whitest.The raven is fair when the rook is not by.The upright never grow rich in a hurry.The waggon must go whither the horses draw it.The watch-dog does not get sweet milk unless there be drowned mice in it.The water runs while the miller sleeps.There are many days in the year, and still more meals.There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.There were never fewer nobles than when all would be so.There's many a knave concealed under a surplice.Those who climb high, often have a fall.Though the ass may carry a sack of gold, it nevertheless feeds on thistles.Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair.Though you teach a wolf the paternoster, he will say "Lamb! Lamb!"To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.To withhold truth is to bury gold.Treachery and slander are long lived.Treachery lurks in honeyed words.Trust everybody, but thyself most.Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord, when they shake their heads.Trust not still water nor a silent man.Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask.Truth is bitter food.Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable.Truth's cloak is often lined with lies.Two are the masters of one. |
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