Danish proverb Famous Quotes
The road to a friend's house is never long.
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
"Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child."
Children are a poor man's wealth.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
"If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it."
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."
Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
"Where there is love, there is pain."
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
"If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see."
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
"If you would live healthy, be old early."
"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."
"If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle."
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."
"Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)"
"If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else."
Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.
"Live with wolves, and you learn to howl."
"Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get."
One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
"Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow."
"From a fallen tree, all make kindling."
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Don't offer me advice give me money.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
To own is to fear.
"The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water."
"Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free."
"Three Spaniards, four opinions."
Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
"To the good listener, half a word is enough."
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish proverb Quotations
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
William J Clinton
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
Walt Whitman
"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."
Publilius Syrus
"If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat)"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there."
Paul Kantner
"To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."
George Stanley McGovern
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Friedrich Nietzsche