There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Desires, Desire
Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Enemies
What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Alcohol
For a good appetite there is no hard bread.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Appetite
The tree of revenge does not carry fruit
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Proverbs
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Reward sweetens labor.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Labor
Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Flowers, Proverbs
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: The Body
Honesty is the soul of business
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Honesty, Proverbs
When one friend washes another, both become clean.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Friendship
In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
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: Debt, Promises
From small beginning come great things.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
All are not friends who smile on you.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Smile
Teachers die, but books live on.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Book
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Beginning
The eyes are bigger than the belly.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Eyes
It’s good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Rain
After honor and state follow envy and hate.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Letters
Better keep peace than make peace.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Peace
Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Health
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience
Who knows the language is at home everywhere.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Home
Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Enemies
Woods have ears and fields have eyes.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Anger is a short madness.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Anger, Madness, Forgiveness
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
—Dutch Proverb
Topics: Patience