Hearsay is half lies.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Lies
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Generosity
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Promises, Debt
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Enemies
What is wrong today won’t be right tomorrow.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Right, Tomorrow
Anger is a short madness.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness, Anger, Madness
By labor fire is got out of stone.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Labor
No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Peace
Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Enemies
From small beginning come great things.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Teachers die, but books live on.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Book
When I go to bed, I leave my troubles in my clothes.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Trouble
Opportunity creates desire.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Who knows the language is at home everywhere.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Home
A wise husband and a patient wife equal a peaceful home and a happy life.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Letters
All are not friends who smile on you.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Smile
Better keep peace than make peace.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Peace
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Opportunity makes desire.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Desire
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Inaction, Getting Going, Journeys, Travel, Procrastination, Part of The Whole
Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Blessings
Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dearly for it.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Alcohol
A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.
—Dutch Proverb
When one friend washes another, both become clean.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Time destroys all things.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
After great droughts come great rains.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Rain
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