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| Dutch Proverb - T
'Tis a fat bird that bastes itself.'Tis a wise child that knows its own father.'Tis as necessary to him as gold weights are to a beggar.'Tis best woo where a man can see the smoke.'Tis too late to spare when the cask is bare.'Tis well that wicked cows have short horns.'Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may slip.Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse.Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance.Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle.Talk of the wolf and his tail appears.Tall trees catch much wind.Tender surgeons make foul wounds.That beer's of your own brewing, and you must drink it.That is beggar's fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages.That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of consequences).That which burns thee not, cool not.That's all well and good, but gold is better.That's as much as a bean in a brewing copper.That's quickly done which is long repented.The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair.The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.The ass and the driver never think alike.The best cause requires a good pleader.The best fodder is the mater's eye.The best goods are the cheapest.The best horse stumbles sometimes.The best pilots are ashore.The better lawyer, the worse Christian.The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul.The candle that goes before gives the best light.The counterfeit image of a pot with two ears.The devil has his martyrs among men.The devil is not so black as he is painted.The devil sits behind the cross.The devil's in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump.The end crowns all.The end crowns all.The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow.The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat.The eyes are bigger than the belly.The farther from Rome the nearer to God.The first in the boat has the choice of oars.The first occasion offered quickly take, lest thou repine at what thou didst forsake.The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.The goose hisses, but does not bite.The monk preached against stealing, and had the good in his larder.The more you stir a turd, the more it stinks.The most learned are not the wisest.The mouse that hath but one hold is soon caught.The nearest boor is the nearest kinsman when the calf lies in the ditch.The nobler the tree, the more pliant the twig.The open door invites the thief.The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last.The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.There are more thieves than are hanged.There is nothing so secret but it transpires.There's no making a donkey drink against his will.There's no making a silk purse of a sow's ear.Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.Time is money.To be led by the nose.To bring down two apples with one stick.To carry coals to Newcastle.To carry fir-trees to Norway.To cast in a smelt to catch a codfish.To fall from the wall into the ditch.To give one the sack.To harness the horses behind the cart.To laugh in one's sleeve.To make coqs-a-l'ane.To peer out the mote in another's eye and not the beam in your own.To piece the lion's skin with that of the fox.To pour water into a sieve.To put water into a basket.To quarrel over a straw.To shave an egg.To swallow both sea and fish.To throw oil on the fire.To wipe up the sea with a sponge.Too many cooks oversalt the porridge.Too much of one thing is good for nothing.Touch a galled horse and he'll wince.Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best.Trees often transplanted seldom prosper.Truth is lost with too much debating. |
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