Danish Proverb
Danish Proverb
beg home knows leave purse
He who knows how to beg may leave his purse at home
falsehood prosper suffer truth
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood
abuse cowardly dead enemy fly living
It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one
elephant enemy regard size though
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant
man none small stretch tall
No man is so tall that he never need stretch and none to small that he never need stoop.
ancestors brag unworthy
They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them
bells great hears ringing
While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.
farther row sail
Don't sail out farther than you can row back
child cry
Better the child cry than the old man.
bad heel toe turned wife wishes
A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe
apples bad good tree yield
A bad tree does not yield good apples
bad eats good horse
A bad horse eats as much as a good one
bad cut hair shame
A bad hair cut is two people's shame
grunt pigs
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them