Bad is never good until worse happens.

More Danish Proverbs

• If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
• Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
• People with nothing to say, often speak the most.
• What you are is God’s gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
• Better ask twice than lose your way once.
• Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man.
• One should choose the lesser of two evils.
• What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
• Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
• Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
• He who would leap high must take a long run.
• It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
• Bad is never good until worse happens.
• The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold.
• He is most cheated who cheats himself.
• He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
• Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
• Faults are thick where love is thin.
• Wisdom goes not always by years.
• Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
• All the great things in life come with some kind of problem attached.
• Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
• Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
• You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
• An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
• Better a friend’s bite than an enemy’s caress.
• Every person is a fool in somebody’s opinion.