Danish

Better a friend’s bite than an enemy’s caress.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
A good neighbour is better than a brother far off.
Don’t judge things and people based on their look.
To have a woman is bad; to lose her is worse.
If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.
Take losses and wins with the same attitude as they are part of life.
Children understand more than you think, so adults shouldn’t talk too loud about their secrets when kids are around.
A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.
Ask advice only of your equals.
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
All the great things in life come with some kind of problem attached.
Every person is a fool in somebody’s opinion.
He who gives to me teaches me to give.
Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Children are a poor man’s wealth.
They are most cheated who cheat themselves.
He that does not save pennies, will never have pounds.
Many small streams make a large river.
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
He who doesn’t open his eyes when he buys must still open his purse to pay.
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
One should choose the lesser of two evils.
It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Don’t sail out farther than you can row back.
God feeds the birds that use their wings.
The dog’s kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Don’t offer me advice give me money.
Keep not two tongues in one mouth.
Where there is love, there is pain.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
People with nothing to say, often speak the most.
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
A small fire that warms you, is better than a large one that burns you.
Don’t throw away dirty water before you have more clean water.
No one gets into trouble without his own help.
The road to a friend’s house is never long.
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
When it rains on the priest, it dribbles on the bellringer. another: You can tell a louse by its walk.
What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach.
What you are is God’s gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold.
Wisdom goes not always by years.
You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.
To the good listener, half a word is enough.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
To own is to fear.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
If you would live healthy, be old early.
No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.
Better ask twice than lose your way once.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Love and poverty are hard to conceal.