A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Smile
Unwilling service earns no thanks.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Service
Shared sorrow is half sorrow
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Sorrow, Sharing
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb
Ask advice only of your equals.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Fresh, Health
A drunken may soon be made to dance.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
The road to a friend’s house is never long.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth, Lies
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Change, Law, Lawyers
To tell the truth is dangerous; to listen to it is boring.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth
Speech is oft repented, silence never
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Speech, Proverbs
The teeth often bite the tongue, still the two stay together.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Togetherness
Let no one look into your heart or into your purse.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Virtue in the middle, said the Devil when seated between two lawyers.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
What a sober man has in his heart, a drunken man has on his lips.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart, Drunkenness
Blame is a lazy man’s wages.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Blame
Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
—Danish Proverb
He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Envy, Jealousy
Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Silence
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Action
A beautiful face is admired even when its owner doesn’t say anything.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Admiration
God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Food
If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn’t sing so beautifully.
—Danish Proverb
Who takes a child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Children, Mother