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Danish Proverb

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages

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A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
Ask advice only of your equals.
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Children are a poor man's wealth.
Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
Don't offer me advice give me money.
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.
Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
If you would live healthy, be old early.
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
To own is to fear.
To the good listener, half a word is enough.
Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Where there is love, there is pain.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

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