If there is room in your heart there is room in your house.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Promises
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Fate, Proverbs
Let no one look into your heart or into your purse.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Poverty, Mother, Children, The Poor
New dishes beget new appetites.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Food, Proverbs
It’s possible to light another man’s candle without damaging your own.
—Danish Proverb
Age is a sorry traveling companion.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Age
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
—Danish Proverb
Your friendship is your needs answered.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends, Friendship
Many have too much, but none enough.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Satisfaction
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy, Envy
The teeth often bite the tongue, still the two stay together.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Togetherness
Truth is always homeless.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Home, The Truth
Speech is often repented, silence never.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Speech, Silence
Do not keep secret from your friend what your enemy already knows.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Speech is oft repented, silence never
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Speech
What a sober man has in his heart, a drunken man has on his lips.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart, Drunkenness
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Envy
The road to a friend’s house is never long.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Envy does not enter empty houses.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
Children are a poor man’s wealth.
—Danish Proverb
A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Smile
Bad is never good until worse happens.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Adversity
When the cat and the mouse agree the farmer doesn’t stand a chance.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Chance
Sight before hearsay.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Gossip
Ask advice only of your equals.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Garden
Who takes a child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Mother, Children
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn’t sing so beautifully.
—Danish Proverb
Better to be a free bird than a captive king.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Kings
Act honestly, and answer boldly.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Boldness
Virtue in the middle, said the Devil when seated between two lawyers.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
Gifts should be handed, not thrown.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Gifts