When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice.
More Dutch Proverbs:
Advisers are not givers.Dutch
The absent always bear the blame.
Dutch
When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.
Dutch
A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows.
Dutch
No one knows where another's shoe pinches.
Dutch
That which burns thee not, cool not.
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