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A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If you have learnt to wait, you may be Queen of Sweden.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that feeds himself from waiting could die of hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about hunger

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, honesty

Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

For a good dinner and a gentle wife you can afford to wait.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wife, good, good luck

He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about danger, man

It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

If he waits long enough the world will be his own.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about world

Time and tide wait for no men.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man, time

All things come to he who waits.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things

Everything comes to him who waits.

Proverbs and old sayings English

It is good to wait for a man that is alive.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, man

He who waits gets a tailwind, and he who rows, a harbour.

Proverbs and old sayings

Though the fool waits, the day does not.

Proverbs and old sayings French about day

Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.

Proverbs and old sayings French about people

He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man