339 Sayings of Dutch Origin
1. "No one is wise in his own affairs." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "Time and place make the thief." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "Better lose the anchor than the whole ship." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "It is a grief to one beggar that there is another at the door." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "A good horse is worth his fodder." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "Patience surpasses learning." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "When things go well it is easy to advise." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "A scabby head fears the comb." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "No wheat without chaff." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "Better to be squinting than blind." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "Tender surgeons make foul wounds." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "Who doesn't keep faith with God won't keep it with men." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "Who knows the language is at home everywhere." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "Where a man feels pain he lays his hand." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "A stout heart tempers adversity." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "An old rat won't go into the trap." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "He would be wise who knew all things beforehand." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "Soon ripe, soon rotten; soon wise, soon foolish." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "Learn who are your friends when you are in need." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "Common goods, no goods." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "Wasting is a bad habit, saving is a sure income." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "He that has the luck leads the bride to church." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "Truth is lost with too much debating." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "Better reap two days early than one day late." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "Falling teaches us to walk safely." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "My shirt is closer to me than my cloak." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "Nothing in haste but catching fleas." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "What is wrong today won't be right tomorrow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "Hasty questions require slow answers." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "Everything has an end with the exception of God." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "If you touch pitch you will get dirty." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "Better a blind horse than an empty halter." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "One should not think about it too much when marrying or taking pills." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "When the stomach is full the heart is glad." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "Skill and assurance make an invincible combination." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "It is hard to steal where the host is a thief." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "The fly flutters around the candle till it gets burnt." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "He that has a choice has trouble." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "A smart coat is a good letter of introduction." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "Poor folk's wisdom counts very little." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "Ill-matched horses draw badly." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "To every fool his cap." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "Good wine praises itself." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "Better a leg broken than the neck." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "What costs nothing is worth nothing." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Poverty is the reward of idleness." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "Fortune and glass break easily." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "Woods have ears and fields have eyes." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "Were fools silent, they would pass for wise." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "Who serves the public serves a fickle master." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "Every flood has its ebb." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "It is safest to sail within reach of the shore." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "Many open a door to shut a window." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "God does not pay weekly, but pays at the end." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "The best pilots are ashore." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "The young ravens are beaked like the old." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house and a happy life." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "Everyone is a thief in his own craft." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "When two quarrel both are in the wrong." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick even more." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl than a peasant girl of a lady." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "To do nothing teaches evil." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "Long fasting doesn't save bread." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "When the calf is drowned they cover the well." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "He has the greatest blind side who thinks he has none." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "A dog with a bone knows no friend." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times, madness." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "If it's not burning you why cool it?" (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "The open door invites the thief." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "A man overboard, a mouth less to feed." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "The farther from Rome the nearer to God." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "Trees often transplanted seldom prosper." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "He is so wise that he goes upon the ice three days before it freezes." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "Geese are plucked as long as they have feathers." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "Big fish jump out of the kettle." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "Slowly but surely the bird builds his nest." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "A crown is no cure for the headache." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "An honest man's word is his bond." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "He that would jest must take a jest, or else to let it alone were best." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "After great droughts come great rains." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "Who gives to me, teaches me to give." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "He who attempts too much seldom succeeds." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "Economy is a great revenue." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "No office so humble but it is better than nothing." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "An ennobled peasant does not know his own father." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "The most learned are not the wisest." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "For great evils strong remedies." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "It is better to blow than burn your mouth." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "He who wants a new world must first buy the old." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "When the sack is full it pricks up its ears." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "A little pot boils easily." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "A sad bride makes a glad wife." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "After meat comes mustard." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "From trivial things great arguments often arise." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "Every one must row with the oars he has." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "He who would catch a rogue must watch behind the door." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican are the four evangelists of Lucifer." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "Nobility of soul is more honorable than nobility of birth." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "The worse the carpenter, the more the chips." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "The richest man, whate'er his lot, is the one content with what he's got." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "All offices are greasy." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "He that saves something today will have something tomorrow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "Better poor on land than rich at sea." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "The best goods are the cheapest." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "The heart does not lie." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "A bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "Stroke your dog, and he'll spoil your clothes." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "A horse may stumble, though he has four feet." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "Every day is not a holiday." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "It's good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "Sweep in front of your own door before you look after your neighbor's." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "Might is not right." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "A penny saved is better than a florin earned." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "Hens like to lay where they see an egg." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "He wants to learn how to shave using my beard." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "There are no better masters than poverty and wants." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "Sloth is the beginning of vice." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "Before you make a friend, eat a pack of salt with him." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "All women are good Lutherans, they would rather preach than hear mass." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "Never wear a brown hat in Friesland." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "In small woods may be caught large hares." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "Opportunity makes desire." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
149. "A fool by chance may say a wise thing." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
150. "The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
151. "In the division of inheritance, friendship stands still." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
152. "He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
153. "Reward sweetens labor." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
154. "Quickly done; long repented." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
155. "Better poor with honor than rich with shame." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
156. "Who fears no shame comes to no honor." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
157. "In the land of promise a man may die of hunger." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
158. "Men can bear all things except good days." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
159. "An idle man is the devil's pillow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
160. "He who is afraid of the leaves must not go into the wood." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
161. "To get eggs there must be some cackling." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
162. "He that chases another does not sit still himself." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
163. "A flying crow always catches something." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
164. "Little pots soon run over." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
165. "The third person makes good company." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
166. "Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
167. "Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
168. "Anger is a short madness." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
169. "All are not princes who ride with the emperor." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
170. "He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
171. "The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
172. "Good things require time." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
173. "Fair money can cover much that's foul." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
174. "Many hounds mean the death of the hare." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
175. "It is hard to swim against the current." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
176. "Common fame seldom lies." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
177. "The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
178. "After high floods come low ebbs." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
179. "When the husband earns well, the wife spends well." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
180. "It is too late to cry “Hold hard!” when the arrow has left the bow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
181. "He who has no thirst has no business at the fountain." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
182. "Who undertakes too much, succeeds but little." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
183. "No better masters than poverty and want." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
184. "Set your expense according to your trade." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
185. "Good looking apples are sometimes sour." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
186. "He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
187. "Where there's no good within, no good comes out." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
188. "A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
189. "If you eat someone's cake, you must also eat his lentils." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
190. "Good right needs good help." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
191. "Many seek good nights and waste good days." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
192. "Better return half way than lose yourself." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
193. "Coupled sheep drown one another." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
194. "An old coachman loves the crack of the whip." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
195. "The best cause requires a good champion." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
196. "Nobody's sweetheart is ugly." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
197. "There is no point in combing where there is no hair." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
198. "He that despises the small is not worthy of the great." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
199. "When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
200. "It is a bad well that you have to fill with water." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
201. "Who is tired of happy days, let him take a wife." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
202. "Cats don't catch the old birds." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
203. "Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
204. "It is good to warm oneself by another's fire." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
205. "Hearsay is half lies." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
206. "Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
207. "There are more thieves than are hanged." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
208. "Love makes labor light." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
209. "Great wealth, great care." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
210. "When the dog is down, everyone is ready to bite him." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
211. "In prosperity caution, in adversity patience." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
212. "Opportunity creates desire." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
213. "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
214. "Who has only one eye must take good care of it." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
215. "They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove they are right." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
216. "A miser's money takes the place of wisdom." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
217. "Little thieves have iron chains; big thieves have gold ones." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
218. "Caution is the parent of delicate beer glasses." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
219. "Pleasures steal away the mind." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
220. "God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
221. "Good drink drives out bad thoughts." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
222. "The rich have many friends." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
223. "The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and the eye of the mistress makes the chambers neat." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
224. "When the cook and the steward fall out, we hear who stole the butter." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
225. "Sow not money on the sea lest it sink." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
226. "He must shoot well who always hits the mark." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
227. "The eyes are bigger than the belly." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
228. "Cast no roses before swine." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
229. "Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
230. "One God, one wife, but many friends." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
231. "Promises make debts, and debts make promises." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
232. "Shame lasts longer than poverty." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
233. "Women who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
234. "Little fish are sweet." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
235. "Better reap two days too soon than one too late." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
236. "Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
237. "Beware of the person with two faces." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
238. "Coffee has two virtues, it's wet and it's warm." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
239. "He fell with his nose in the butter." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
240. "Behind every mountain lies a valley." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
241. "What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
242. "When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
243. "An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the same plow." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
244. "Dogs have teeth in all countries." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
245. "No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
246. "After honor and state follow envy and hate." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
247. "Sooner or later the truth comes to light." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
248. "Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
249. "The young may die, the old must." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
250. "A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
251. "Fools are free all the world over." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
252. "Promises make debt, and debt makes promises." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
253. "You've got to stare the cat down out of the tree." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
254. "One penny in the pot makes more noise than when it is full." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
255. "It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool's head." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
256. "No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
257. "When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
258. "Hares are not caught with drums." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
259. "There is more to dancing than a pair of dancing shoes." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
260. "It is too late to lock the stable door when the horses have already been stolen." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
261. "It is good spinning from another's yarn." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
262. "No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
263. "One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
264. "There is a fool at every feast." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
265. "Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
266. "One can't shoe a running horse." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
267. "Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
268. "Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
269. "Better ride a good horse for a year than an ass all your life." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
270. "He talks like a sausage without the fat." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
271. "The world likes to be cheated." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
272. "Better a ruined than a lost land." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
273. "When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
274. "Pastors come for your wine and officers for your daughters." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
275. "Roses fall, but the thorns remain." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
276. "Idleness is hunger's mother; of theft it is full brother." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
277. "Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
278. "Darkness and night are mothers of thought." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
279. "Of listening children have your fears, for little pitchers have great ears." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
280. "It is hard to blow with a full mouth." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
281. "A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
282. "Of hasty counsel take good heed, for haste is very rarely speed." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
283. "All are not friends who smile at you." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
284. "When the head is sick the whole body is sick." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
285. "Like will to like, be they poor or rich." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
286. "The devil has his martyrs among men." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
287. "Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
288. "Men that crawl, never fall." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
289. "God does not pay weekly, but He pays at the end." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
290. "More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a barrel full of vinegar." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
291. "An inch too short is as bad as a yard." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
292. "One nail drives in another." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
293. "The nobler the tree, the more bends the twig." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
294. "He must indeed be a good master who never does wrong." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
295. "Milk the cow, but don't pull off the udder." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
296. "A louse in the cabbage is better than no meat at all." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
297. "Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
298. "Where there is nothing, the emperor loses his right." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
299. "Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
300. "Where the dike is lowest the water first runs out." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
301. "Teachers die, but books live on." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
302. "By labor fire is got out of stone." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
303. "Who watches not catches not." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
304. "A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
305. "The goose hisses, but does not bite." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
306. "What the old ones sing, the young ones whistle." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
307. "Let me get over the lake, and I will have no fear of the brook." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
308. "Barking dogs don't bite." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
309. "In the company of the good we become good." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
310. "Daughters may be seen but not heard." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
311. "Virtue consists of action." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
312. "Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
313. "Stay a while, and lose a mile." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
314. "Help yourself and God will help you." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
315. "All is well, for if the bride has not fair hair, she has a fair skin." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
316. "Neither reprove nor flatter your wife where people hear or see it." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
317. "Who has many servants has many thieves." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
318. "Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
319. "What the eye sees not, the heart craves not." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
320. "You never know how a cow catches a rabbit." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
321. "Don't overstrain your bow, it may break." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
322. "Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
323. "Bear patiently that which you suffer by your own fault." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
324. "He who would gather roses must not fear thorns." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
325. "He waits long that waits for another man's death." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
326. "Where the hedge is lowest everyone goes over." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
327. "What has horns will gore." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
328. "Little is done where many command." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
329. "Marry in haste and repent at leisure." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
330. "If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
331. "It is hasty speed that doesn't succeed." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
332. "Offer a clown your finger, and he'll take your fist." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
333. "Better keep peace than make peace." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
334. "The cost is high of the honey that must be licked from thorns." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
335. "It is good rowing with the sail set." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
336. "You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
337. "A man without money is like a ship without sails." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
338. "Great boast, little roast." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
339. "Roast pigeons don't fly through the air." (Dutch Sayings) Click to tweet
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