Dutch proverbs

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.

Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.

Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep.

Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost.

He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.

It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.

Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.

All offices are greasy (i.e. open to receive what the Dutch call smear-money, a term derived from the fee paid for greasing wheels).

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