The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.
More Danish Proverbs:
The horse that you love draws more than four oxen.Danish
Vice is most dangerous when it puts on the garb of virtue.
Danish
Let another's shipwreck be your sea-mark.
Danish
To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould.
Danish
If you play with the fool at home, he will play with you abroad.
Danish
He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in cheek.
Danish