Dutch Proverbs

Stay a while, and lose a mile. Dutch Proverbs Image

Stay a while, and lose a mile.

Step by step one goes very far. Dutch Proverbs Image

Step by step one goes very far.

Still waters are deep. Dutch Proverbs Image

Still waters are deep.

Stock-fish are made tender by much beating. Dutch Proverbs Image

Stock-fish are made tender by much beating.

Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break. Dutch Proverbs Image

Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break.

Stretch your legs no farther than your coverlet. Dutch Proverbs Image

Stretch your legs no farther than your coverlet.

Strew no roses before swine. Dutch Proverbs Image

Strew no roses before swine.

Stroke your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes. Dutch Proverbs Image

Stroke your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes.

Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly. Dutch Proverbs Image

Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly.

That’s all well and good, but gold is better. Dutch Proverbs Image

That’s all well and good, but gold is better.

That’s quickly done which is long repented. Dutch Proverbs Image

That’s quickly done which is long repented.

The absent always bear the blame. Dutch Proverbs Image

The absent always bear the blame.

No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf. Dutch Proverbs Image

No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf.

Tender surgeons make foul wounds. Dutch Proverbs Image

Tender surgeons make foul wounds.

That is beggar’s fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages. Dutch Proverbs Image

That is beggar’s fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages.

That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. Dutch Proverbs Image

That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.

That mouse will have a tail. Dutch Proverbs Image

That mouse will have a tail.

That which burns thee not, cool not. Dutch Proverbs Image

That which burns thee not, cool not.

Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth. Dutch Proverbs Image

Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth.

One cannot shoe a running horse. Dutch Proverbs Image

One cannot shoe a running horse.

The clock ticks nowhere else the way it does at home. Dutch Proverbs Image

The clock ticks nowhere else the way it does at home.

One bird in the hand is better than two flying. Dutch Proverbs Image

One bird in the hand is better than two flying.

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. Dutch Proverbs Image

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.

Once a whore, always a whore. Dutch Proverbs Image

Once a whore, always a whore.

Once bit, twice shy. Dutch Proverbs Image

Once bit, twice shy.

The candle that goes before gives the best light. Dutch Proverbs Image

The candle that goes before gives the best light.

On a small pretence the wolf devours the sheep. Dutch Proverbs Image

On a small pretence the wolf devours the sheep.

No one so sure but he may miss. Dutch Proverbs Image

No one so sure but he may miss.

Teachers die, but books live on. Dutch Proverbs Image

Teachers die, but books live on.

No one knows where another’s shoe pinches. Dutch Proverbs Image

No one knows where another’s shoe pinches.

Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle. Dutch Proverbs Image

Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle.

Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance. Dutch Proverbs Image

Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance.

Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word. Dutch Proverbs Image

Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.

Sweep before your own door before you look after your neighbour’s. Dutch Proverbs Image

Sweep before your own door before you look after your neighbour’s.

Surfeits slay mae than swords. Dutch Proverbs Image

Surfeits slay mae than swords.

No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases. Dutch Proverbs Image

No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases.

Sorrow will pay no debts. Dutch Proverbs Image

Sorrow will pay no debts.

No office so humble but it is better than nothing. Dutch Proverbs Image

No office so humble but it is better than nothing.

Sitting with the hands in the hair. Dutch Proverbs Image

Sitting with the hands in the hair.

Sitting securely in the saddle. Dutch Proverbs Image

Sitting securely in the saddle.

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