No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Speech is often repented, silence never.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Speech, Silence
To tell the truth is dangerous; to listen to it is boring.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth
Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Mistakes, The Truth
Blame is a lazy man’s wages.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Blame
Many have too much, but none enough.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Satisfaction
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Flying
Unwilling service earns no thanks.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Service
If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn’t sing so beautifully.
—Danish Proverb
The teeth often bite the tongue, still the two stay together.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Togetherness
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy, Envy
Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Quarrels, Fight, Fighting
Slander expires at a good woman’s door.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Insults, Slander
Better to be a free bird than a captive king.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Kings
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Promises
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb
New dishes beget new appetites.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Appetite
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Happiness does not give, it only lends.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Happiness
It’s possible to light another man’s candle without damaging your own.
—Danish Proverb
A beautiful face is admired even when its owner doesn’t say anything.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Admiration
Who takes a child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Children, Mother
Children are a poor man’s wealth.
—Danish Proverb
A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Smile
Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Envy
Ask advice only of your equals.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Cheerfulness and goodwill make labor light.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Cheerfulness
Envy does not enter empty houses.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Truth
He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
The nobler the blood the less the pride.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Pride
They are most cheated who cheat themselves.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Cheating
Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Let no one look into your heart or into your purse.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.
—Danish Proverb
Never repent a good action.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Action
Onions, smoke and women bring tears to your eyes.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Happiness and glass break easily.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Happiness