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Idleness is the devil's bolster.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

One to one, and two to the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

He loves me as the devil loves holy water.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, water

He must cry aloud who would scare the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

It is not easy to walk upon the devil's ice.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

He must be ill-favoured who scares the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

An ill-tempered woman is the devil's door-nail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, woman

He must have iron fingers who would flay the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, nothing, man

Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fasting, devil

He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, god

What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil

Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things, devil

Falsehood is the Devil's daughter, and speaks her father's tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, devil

It is not for nothing that the devil lays himself down in the ditch.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, nothing

He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about intelligence, devil

Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two lawyers.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about virtue, devil

A customary railer is the devil's bagpipe, which the world danceth after.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about world, devil

Much noise and little wool, said the devil, when he was shearing the sow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil
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