They are most cheated who cheat themselves.

More Danish Proverbs

• A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.
• He who doesn’t open his eyes when he buys must still open his purse to pay.
• Where there is love, there is pain.
• When it rains on the priest, it dribbles on the bellringer. another: You can tell a louse by its walk.
• If you would live healthy, be old early.
• Ask advice only of your equals.
• The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
• A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
• What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach.
• No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.
• 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.