Danish proverbs

There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his own tale.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue.

If 'almost' did not exist, said the woman, ""than I would have shot a hare.""

Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence come all our nobles.

Better the world should know you as a sinner than God know you as a hypocrite.

Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your hair.

He is a fool that praises himself, and he a madman that speaks ill of himself.

The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the spit.

He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence.

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