Wise care keeps what it has gained.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Health, Fresh
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.
—Danish Proverb
Your friendship is your needs answered.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends, Friendship
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Action
Do not keep secret from your friend what your enemy already knows.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Flying
Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Mistakes, The Truth
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Change, Lawyers, Law
A beautiful face is admired even when its owner doesn’t say anything.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Admiration
Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Ambition
The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Garden
Speech is oft repented, silence never.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Speech
To tell the truth is dangerous; to listen to it is boring.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb
Better to be a free bird than a captive king.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Kings
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Envy, Jealousy
Fish and guests smell at three days old.
—Danish Proverb
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
A drunken may soon be made to dance.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.
—Danish Proverb
It’s possible to light another man’s candle without damaging your own.
—Danish Proverb
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Children are a poor man’s wealth.
—Danish Proverb
Gifts should be handed, not thrown.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Gifts
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Ancestry, Ancestors
The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
As the man is, so is his language.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Language
Cheerfulness and goodwill make labor light.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Cheerfulness
When the cat and the mouse agree the farmer doesn’t stand a chance.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Chance
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