280 Sayings of Danish Origin
1. "It is too late to learn to swim when the water is up to your lips." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
2. "Love has produced some heroes but many idiots too." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
3. "He that feeds himself from waiting could die of hunger." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
4. "He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
5. "If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
6. "Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
7. "Death does not look at your teeth." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
8. "They are most cheated who cheat themselves." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
9. "Tell nothing to thy friend which why enemy may not know." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
10. "Beauty carries its dower in its face." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
11. "He who would leap high must take a long run." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
12. "Advice after injury is like medicine after death." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
13. "The ground is always frozen for the lazy swine." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
14. "Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
15. "Not everybody is as bad as he is dressed." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
16. "Riches are often abused, never refused." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
17. "Vice is learned without a schoolmaster." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
18. "He who comforts never has a headache." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
19. "He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
20. "Love's plant must be watered with tears and tended with care." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
21. "Never repent a good action." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
22. "Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
23. "Heaven dries what it has made wet." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
24. "Let every bird sing its own note." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
25. "What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
26. "The horse that you love draws more than four oxen." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
27. "Life without a friend is death without a witness." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
28. "Flowers are the pledges of fruit." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
29. "The herb patience does not grow in every man's garden." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
30. "It is bitter fare eating one's own words." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
31. "Faint hearts never win fair ladies." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
32. "Better a friend's bite than an enemy's caress." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
33. "After an earner comes a waster." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
34. "He who wants to catch foxes must hunt with geese." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
35. "Every little fish expects to become a whale." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
36. "Quick and well seldom go together." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
37. "He who lets another sit on his shoulder will soon have him on his head." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
38. "The absent are always to blame." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
39. "Blame is the lazy man's wages." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
40. "If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
41. "The greater the fear the nearer the danger." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
42. "It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
43. "A small cloud may hide both sun and moon." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
44. "When the government has no ears to listen with, then she has no head for governing." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
45. "Wise men do not quarrel with each other." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
46. "He must cry loud who would frighten the devil." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
47. "Better one poor horse than an empty stall." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
48. "If you can't heal the wound, don't tear it open." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
49. "Almost kills no man." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
50. "God feeds the birds that use their wings." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
51. "An old error has more friends than a new truth." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
52. "Love is one-eyed, hate is blind." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
53. "There is often a royal heart under a tattered coat." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
54. "Every one rakes the fire under his own pot." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
55. "Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
56. "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
57. "Diligent working makes an expert workman." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
58. "Gifts should be handed, not thrown." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
59. "The nobler the blood, the less the pride." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
60. "An old man's sayings are rarely untrue." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
61. "Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
62. "Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
63. "The eye of the master does more than his two hands." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
64. "Praise a fool and you may make him useful." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
65. "A silent man's words are not brought into court." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
66. "Many men are like clocks that show one hour and strike another." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
67. "Favor and gifts disturb justice." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
68. "We get too soon old and too late smart." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
69. "A good handicraft rests on a golden foundation." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
70. "Misfortune sits on a rich man's lap but grabs the throat of the pauper." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
71. "Kind words don't wear the tongue." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
72. "He who marries a widow with three children marries four thieves." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
73. "One bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
74. "Call not the devil; he will come fast enough without." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
75. "When the master hurts his foot the servants limp." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
76. "To have a woman is bad; to lose her is worse." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
77. "Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
78. "Keep your nose out of another's mess." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
79. "There is a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
80. "One hand full of money is more persuasive than two full of truth." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
81. "Unanimity is the strongest fortress." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
82. "Riches and favor go before wisdom and art." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
83. "Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
84. "Don't despise a slight wound or a poor relative." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
85. "He who doesn't open his eyes when he buys must still open his purse to pay." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
86. "Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
87. "God gives the will; necessity gives the law." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
88. "Envy does not enter empty houses." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
89. "Where there is love, there is pain." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
90. "Live according to your means." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
91. "Enough is great riches." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
92. "The stone that is not in your way does not bother you." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
93. "Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
94. "Onions, smoke and women bring tears to your eyes." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
95. "Better to ask twice than to lose your way once." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
96. "No one gets into trouble without his own help." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
97. "The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
98. "When there is room in the heart there is room in the house." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
99. "All who snore are not asleep." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
100. "Fish and guests smell at three days old." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
101. "Fresh air impoverishes doctors." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
102. "To a friend's house the road is never long." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
103. "A good king is better than an old law." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
104. "Every fool thinks himself clever enough." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
105. "The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
106. "He who gives to me teaches me to give." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
107. "Happiness and glass break easily." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
108. "Earnest and sport go well together." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
109. "Art finds its food everywhere." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
110. "He who would be everywhere will be nowhere." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
111. "If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
112. "Your friendship is your needs answered." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
113. "Frequent washing makes not the crow whiter." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
114. "It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in a cat's ear." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
115. "Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
116. "They must stand high who would see their own destiny." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
117. "It is good to lend to God and the soil; they pay good interest." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
118. "What is play to the cat is death to the mouse." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
119. "It is hard to pay for bread that has already been eaten." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
120. "A royal heart is often hid under a tattered coat." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
121. "A short cut is often a wrong cut." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
122. "To God's council-chamber we have no key." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
123. "Bad is never good until worse happens." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
124. "If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
125. "Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
126. "If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
127. "One who is willing to help does not wait till he is asked." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
128. "From a fallen tree, all make kindling." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
129. "Don't sail out farther than you can row back." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
130. "One eye is a better witness than two ears." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
131. "Fools need no passport." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
132. "If there are no nightingales one must settle for owls." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
133. "Food tastes best when you eat it with your own spoon." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
134. "The man loves with his head, the woman thinks with her heart." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
135. "The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
136. "A wound never heals so well that a scar cannot be seen." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
137. "Many have too much, but none enough." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
138. "One drink is just right, two is too many and three are too few." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
139. "The greater knave, the better luck." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
140. "What you are is God's gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
141. "Slander expires at a good woman's door." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
142. "If you have no money, be polite." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
143. "Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
144. "A single bag of money is stronger than two bags of truth." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
145. "What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
146. "To own is to fear." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
147. "Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
148. "Love is blind and thinks that others don't see either." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
149. "Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
150. "When everyone minds his own business the work is done." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
151. "Laziness is the devil's pillow." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
152. "After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
153. "Don't praise the bread that is not out of the oven." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
154. "Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
155. "To the good listener, half a word is enough." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
156. "The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
157. "Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
158. "When love is not madness, it is not love." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
159. "Many are fain to praise what is right and do what is wrong." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
160. "No one can be caught in places he does not visit." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
161. "God never sends mouths but He sends meat." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
162. "Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
163. "Ask advice only of your equals." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
164. "Better to be a free bird than a captive king." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
165. "He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
166. "Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
167. "Don't offer me advice give me money." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
168. "If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn't sing so beautifully." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
169. "It is time enough to doff your hat when you see the man." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
170. "He who says what he likes must hear what he does not like." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
171. "Riches breed care, poverty is safe." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
172. "An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
173. "Keep your mouth and keep your friend." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
174. "Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
175. "An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
176. "Do as others do, and few will laugh at you." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
177. "Rather an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
178. "Old mistakes need more friends than new truths." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
179. "Kisses are the messengers of love." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
180. "Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
181. "Better poor on land than rich at sea." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
182. "The more by law, the less by right." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
183. "Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
184. "An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
185. "All water flows into the ocean or into the purse of the rich." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
186. "The fire doesn't care about the owner of the coat that is burning." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
187. "Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
188. "Everything has an end, except a sausage, which has two." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
189. "He is not yet born who can please everybody." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
190. "He who has no falcon must hunt with an owl." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
191. "The teeth often bite the tongue, still the two stay together." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
192. "Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
193. "Eggs and oaths are easily broken." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
194. "Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
195. "Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
196. "Happiness does not give, it only lends." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
197. "God help the sheep when the wolf is judge." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
198. "A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
199. "A good example is like a bell that calls many to church." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
200. "Truth is always homeless." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
201. "The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
202. "If the cat had wings all sparrows would die." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
203. "It's no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
204. "Beauty without virtue is a rose without scent." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
205. "He who flees proves himself guilty." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
206. "He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
207. "Even a small star shines in the darkness." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
208. "Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
209. "He is most cheated who cheats himself." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
210. "Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
211. "Let no one look into your heart or into your purse." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
212. "He who is of no use to himself is of no use to anyone." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
213. "You may light another's candle at your own without loss." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
214. "As the man is, so is his language." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
215. "Many small streams make a large river." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
216. "Take off your hat quickly but slowly take hold of your purse." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
217. "Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
218. "Better the child cry, than the mother sigh." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
219. "A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
220. "No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
221. "Don't throw away dirty water before you have more clean water." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
222. "If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
223. "Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
224. "A fool only wins the first game." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
225. "Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
226. "The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
227. "You have either to suffer a lot or die young." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
228. "The year has a wide mouth and a big belly." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
229. "If you hunt with cats you'll catch mice." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
230. "Act honestly, and answer boldly." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
231. "A donkey that carries a lot of books is not necessarily learned." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
232. "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
233. "Unwilling service earns no thanks." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
234. "To circumstances and custom the law must yield." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
235. "It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
236. "Jest with your equals." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
237. "Correction is good, administered in time." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
238. "Faults are thick where love is thin." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
239. "If you would live healthy, be old early." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
240. "Live with wolves, and you learn to howl." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
241. "Labor has a bitter root but a sweet taste." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
242. "If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
243. "Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
244. "Children are certain sorrows, but uncertain joys." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
245. "He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
246. "A deaf husband and a blind wife will always make a happy couple." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
247. "Don't stop sowing just because the birds ate a few seeds." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
248. "God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
249. "To tell the truth is dangerous; to listen to it is boring." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
250. "It is no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
251. "Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
252. "A chain is as strong as its weakest link." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
253. "Death does not blow a trumpet." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
254. "Great men's requests are commands." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
255. "Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
256. "Big words seldom accompany good deeds." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
257. "Children are the poor man's wealth." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
258. "The branch is seldom better than the stem." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
259. "If the beard were all, the goat might preach." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
260. "Ambition and revenge are always hungry." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
261. "Follow the customs or fly the country." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
262. "Rest is good after the work is done." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
263. "No one is so rich that he can do without a good neighbor." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
264. "Age is a sorry travelling companion." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
265. "Fine words without deeds go not far." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
266. "The best advice is found on the pillow." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
267. "No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
268. "Wise care keeps what it has gained." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
269. "Who leaves a son isn't really dead." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
270. "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
271. "Money is more eloquent than twelve members of parliament." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
272. "They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
273. "If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
274. "Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
275. "The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
276. "Speech is often repented, silence never." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
277. "One should speak a little with others and a lot with oneself." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
278. "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
279. "Every man must carry his own sack to the mill." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
280. "A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent." (Danish Sayings) Click to tweet
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