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Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about flowers

It is pleasant driving when there is no danger of upsetting.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about danger

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads its innocence.

Proverbs and old sayings

A hawk kills because it is his nature; a man because it is his pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings about pleasure, nature, man

It is hard to please every one.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The best cause requires a good pleader.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about good, good luck

When God pleases, it rains with every wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about god

He must rise betimes who would please everybody.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is pleasant to cut thongs on another man's leather.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

It's pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about rain

No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about peace

I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that would please all, and himself too, Undertakes what he cannot do.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

There can be no true pleasantry without discretion.

Proverbs and old sayings

Diseases are the interest of pleasures.

Proverbs and old sayings English about interest

God is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns.

Proverbs and old sayings English about god

He that is angry without a cause shall be pleased without amends.

Proverbs and old sayings English

True jokes never please.

Proverbs and old sayings French

No dish pleases all palates alike.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The law says what the king pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings French about law