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| Dutch Proverb - A
A beggar's estate lies in all lands.A beggar's hand is a bottomless basket.A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow.A brilliant daughter make a brittle wife.A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice.A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen.A dog with a bone knows no friends.A flying crow always catches something.A fool and his money are soon parted.A fool and his money are soon parted.A fool may chance to say a wise thing.A friend at one's back is a safe bridge.A friend is better than money in the purse.A friend's dinner is soon dressed.A good fire makes a quick cook.A good friend is better than silver and gold.A good horse is worth his fodder.A good name is better than oil (i.e. riches).A great book is a great evil.A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day.A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains.A horse may stumble, though he has four feet.A house full of daughters is a cellar full of sour beer.A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves.A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt.A liar must have a good memory.A little pot boils easily.A little pot is soon hot.A man in not known till he cometh to honour.A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.A man overboard, a mouth the less.A man without money is like a ship without sails.A merry host makes merry guests.A penny spared is better than a florin gained.A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.A plough that worketh, shines; but still water stinks.A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent.A sad bride makes a glad wife.A scabby head fears the comb.A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.A single day grants what a whole hear denies.A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.A still sow eats up all the draff.A stout heart tempers adversity.A thief makes opportunity.A threatened man lives seven years.A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four evangelists of Lucifer.A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp.A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb.Advisers are not givers.After ebb comes flood, and friends with good.After great droughts come great rains.After high floods come low ebbs.After honour and state follow envy and hate.After rain comes fair weather.After the sour comes the sweet.Agree, agree, for the law is costly.All are not cooks who wear long knives.All are not friends who smile on you.All are not princes who ride with the emperor.All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil.All clouds do not rain.All cocks must have a comb.All do not bite that show their teeth.All is fish that comes to the net.All is well: for if the bride has not fair hair, she has a fair skin.All my goods are of silver and gold, even my copper kettle, says the boaster.All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels).All threateners don't fight.All too good is every man's fool.An ape's an ape, though he wear a gold ring.An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house.An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose's egg.An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.An honest man's word is his bond.An idle man is the devil's pillow.An inch too short is as bad as an ell.An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter.An old ewe dressed lamb-fashion.An old fox doesn't go twice into the trap.An old mule with a golden bridle.An old rat easily finds a hole.An old rat won't go into the trap.An old wolf is used to be shouted at.An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the same plough.Anger is a short madness.Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily.As ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone.As you began the dance you may pay the piper.Asses carry the oats and horses eat them. |
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