While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.
More Danish Proverbs:
What you learn to your cost you remember long.Danish
The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse.
Danish
He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn.
Danish
He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.
Danish
He who wills the end, wills the means.
Danish
Like seeks like--a scabbed horse and a sandy dike.
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