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