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.