It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil
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Many a fool might pass for a wise man if he would only keep his mouth shut.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety and strife.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peace, rightness
It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into your own.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad
If you build according to every man's advice, you will have a crooked house.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about advice, home, house, man
Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on another man's.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
He is never likely to have a good thing cheap that is afraid to ask a price.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things, good, good luck
Throw not thy hatchet at the Lord, He will turn the sharp edge against thee.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his own tale.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fairy tales, need
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man
If 'almost' did not exist, said the woman, than I would have shot a hare.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about woman
Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence come all our nobles.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as a hypocrite.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about world, god
Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads
He is a fool that praises himself, and he a madman that speaks ill of himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the spit.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about food
