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| Dutch Proverb - I
I am not here to catch flies.I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please.I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time.I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.I'll sleep on it.Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.If he waits long enough the world will be his own.If thou touchest pitch thou shalt be defiled.If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak.Ill begun, ill done.Ill tidings come soon enough.Ill-matched horses draw badly.In eating 'tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in.In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.In prosperity think of adversity.In small boxes the best spice.In small woods may be caught large hares.In the division of inheritance, friendship standeth still.In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.In time a mouse will gnaw threw a cable.It flows like a fountain from a broomstick.It grieveth one dog that another goeth into the kitchen.It hangs upon a silken thread.It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door.It is a hard morsel that chokes.It is bad marketing with empty pockets.It is better to blow than burn your mouth.It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.It is easy to be liberal out of another man's purse.It is easy to cut thongs form other men's leather.It is good rowing with set sail.It is good sailing with wind and tide.It is good speaking that improves good silence.It is good spinning from another's yarn.It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding.It is good to warm oneself by another's fire.It is hard to blow with a full mouth.It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds.It is hard to find a pin in the dark.It is hard to please every one.It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.It is hard to swim against the stream.It is ill catching hares with drums.It is ill sailing against wind and tide.It is not the cowl that makes the friar.It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs.It is pleasant to cut thongs on another man's leather.It is prophet-drink (i.e. water).It is safest sailing within reach of the shore.It is too late to cry "Hold hard!" when the arrow has left the bow.It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool's head.It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-money to the matron.It's a long lane that has no turning.It's bad combing where there is no hair.It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors.It's good dancing on another man's floor.It's good feasting in another's hall.It's good steering with wind and tide.It's hard to catch hawks with empty hands.It's ill jesting with edged tools.It's pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry. |
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