Danish proverbs

Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.

He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over the gallows.

Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.

Almost a hit, said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.

Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.

No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.

Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.

Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.

He that hires one garden eats birds; he that hires more than one will be eaten by the birds.

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