Dutch Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
976 Dutch Proverbs
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“Hunger eats through stone walls.”
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“Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.”
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“Hunger gives a relish even to raw beans.”
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“Hungry flies bite sore.”
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“I am not here to catch flies.”
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“I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please.”
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“I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time.”
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“I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run
in ten years.”
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“I wot well how the world wags,
He is most loved that hath most bags.”
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“I'll sleep on it.”
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“Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.”
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“If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.”
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“If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.”
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“If he waits long enough the world will be his own.”
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“If he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.”
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“If one won't another will.”
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“If one, two and three say you are an ass, put on the ears.”
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“If thou touchest pitch thou shalt be defiled.”
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“If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak.”
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“Ill begun, ill done.”
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“Ill tidings come soon enough.”
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“Ill vessels seldom miscarry.”
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“Ill weed grows fast.”
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“Ill-matched horses draw badly.”
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“In eating 'tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in.”
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