Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Promises
Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
—Danish Proverb
Many have too much, but none enough.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Satisfaction
Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Ambition, Revenge
He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Blame is a lazy man’s wages.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Blame, Proverbs
If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn’t sing so beautifully.
—Danish Proverb
New dishes beget new appetites.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Happiness and glass break easily.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Happiness
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
—Danish Proverb
Shared sorrow is half sorrow
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Sharing, Sorrow
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Facts, Realism
The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Garden
Bad is never good until worse happens.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Adversity
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Speech is often repented, silence never.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Speech, Silence
A single bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth
Never repent a good action.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Action
Envy does not enter empty houses.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
Truth is always homeless.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Home, The Truth
A drunken may soon be made to dance.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Action
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy, Envy
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Flying
If there is room in your heart there is room in your house.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Envy
Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Mistakes, The Truth
Unwilling service earns no thanks.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Service
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Fate, Proverbs
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