Danish proverbs

No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.

I would rather see smoke from my own chimney than the fire on another's hearth.

A slip of the foot may soon be recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never.

What you are is God's gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.

A man has two ears and one mouth; he therefore should listen more than he talks.

Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace there is plenty.

A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon files into it.

Own kin are the worst friends, said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him.

Suffering and patience, obedience and application, help the lowly born to honour.

Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'. [Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.]

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