Danish Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
1,257 Danish Proverbs
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“It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.”
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“It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.”
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“It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it.”
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“It is bitter fare to eat one's own words.”
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“It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the
stones at your head.”
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“It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.”
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“It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.”
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“It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.”
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“It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.”
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“It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger.”
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“It is difficult to trap an old fox.”
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“It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a
dead one.”
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“It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eye.”
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“It is easier to stem the brook than the river.”
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“It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all
that follow it.”
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“It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.”
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“It is easy to be generous with another man's money.”
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“It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get
rid of him.”
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“It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom.”
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“It is easy to manage when fortune favors.”
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“It is easy to poke another man's fire.”
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“It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.”
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“It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.”
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“It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head.”
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“"It is easy to work with a good comb," said the devil, when he
combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork."”
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