A single bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth
An old error has more friends than a new truth.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth
Do not keep secret from your friend what your enemy already knows.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Fate
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Ancestors, Ancestry
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
They are most cheated who cheat themselves.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Cheating
Envy does not enter empty houses.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Heart
Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Silence
Truth is always homeless.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: The Truth, Home
As the man is, so is his language.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Language
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Facts, Realism
Cheerfulness and goodwill make labor light.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Cheerfulness
Bad is never good until worse happens.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Adversity
Slander expires at a good woman’s door.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Insults, Slander
New dishes beget new appetites.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Appetite
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb
Virtue in the middle, said the Devil when seated between two lawyers.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.
—Danish Proverb
Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Ambition
Act honestly, and answer boldly.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Boldness
Who takes a child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Children, Mother
Blame is a lazy man’s wages.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Blame, Proverbs
The nobler the blood the less the pride.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Pride
God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Food
When the cat and the mouse agree the farmer doesn’t stand a chance.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Chance
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
—Danish Proverb
Topics: Advice
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