Dutch Proverbs (1219 Proverbs)
- Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's door.
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- Every man thinks his own owl a falcon.
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- Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it.
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- Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life.
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- Beauty is but dross it honesty be lost.
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- An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
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- A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
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- A man overboard, a mouth less to feed.
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- A friend at one's back is a safe bridge.
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- Women who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.
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- Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes.
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- Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth.
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- When Want comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window.
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- When the pig has had a bellyful it upsets the trough.
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- When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death.
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- Wasting is a bad habit, saving is a sure income.
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- Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly.
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- There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
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- The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.
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- The fly flutters around the candle till it gets burnt.
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- That's all well and good, but gold is better.
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- Stretch your legs no farther than your coverlet.
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- Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep.
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- With honour and store, what would you more.
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- Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend.
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- Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.
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- When two quarrel both are in the wrong.
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- When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
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- When every one sees that you are a pig, why don't you go into the sty?
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- Was, flax, and tin; much in and little in.
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- Tis a wise child that knows its own father.
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- The young ravens are beaked like the old.
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- The older one grows the more one learns.
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- The first occasion offered quickly take, lest thou repine at what thou didst forsake.
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- That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of consequences).
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- Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break.
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- Pastors come for your wine and officers for your daughters.
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- With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone.
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- Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well.
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- Who gives to me, teaches me to give.
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- When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it.
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- When the husband earns well, the wife spends well.
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- When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.
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- Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young wife, are always in strife.
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- Thrust not thy finger in a fool's mouth.
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- The worth of a thing is best known by the want.
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- The old ones sing, the young ones pipe.
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- The first in the boat has the choice of oars.
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- That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
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- Spare at the spigot, and let out the bunghole.
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- Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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- With a good name one may easily sin.
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- Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
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- Who fears no shame comes to no honor.
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- When thy neighbour's house is on fire it's time to look about thee.
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- When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
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- When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
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- Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may slip.
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- Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.
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- The worse the wheel, the more it creaks.
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- The nobler the tree, the more pliant the twig.
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- The farther from Rome the nearer to God.
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- That is beggar's fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages.
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- Sow not money on the sea, lest it sink.
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- Our wisdom is no less at Fortune's mercy than our wealth.
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- With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge.
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- Who to-day was a haughty knight, is to-morrow a pennyless wight.
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- Who don't keep faith with God won't keep it with man.
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- When things go well it is easy to advise.
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- When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him.
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- When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.
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- Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best.
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- Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.
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- The worse the carpenter, the more the chips.
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- The nearest boor is the nearest kinsman when the calf lies in the ditch.
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- The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat.
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- That beer's of your own brewing, and you must drink it.
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- Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
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- Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree.
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- Wishes are the echo of a lazy will.
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