Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house and a happy life.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Peace
Opportunity creates desire.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
He that has a choice has trouble.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Choices, Decisions
By labor fire is got out of stone.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Labor
Opportunity makes desire.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Desire
Time destroys all things.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Alcohol
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times… madness.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Madness
Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Flowers
The tree of revenge does not carry fruit
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Proverbs
The eyes are bigger than the belly.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Eyes
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
—Dutch Proverb
Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Enemies
When I go to bed, I leave my troubles in my clothes.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Trouble
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
Woods have ears and fields have eyes.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Health
Better keep peace than make peace.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Peace
Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Blessings
A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.
—Dutch Proverb
Who knows the language is at home everywhere.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Home
When the husband earns well, the wife spends well.
—Dutch Proverb
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
—Dutch Proverb
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Procrastination, Journeys, Travel, Getting Going, Inaction, Part of The Whole
The heart does not lie.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Heart
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Letters
When one friend washes another, both become clean.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Friendship
All are not friends who smile on you.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Smile
Hearsay is half lies.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Lies
In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Luck
After honor and state follow envy and hate.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen.
—Dutch Proverb
What is wrong today won’t be right tomorrow.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Right, Tomorrow
For a good appetite there is no hard bread.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Debt, Promises
From small beginning come great things.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Bear patiently that which you suffer by your own fault.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Peace