Danish Proverb Quotations

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor

No one can be caught in places he does not visit

One who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child

If the beard were all, goats could preach

He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him

He who would leap far must first take a long run

He who knows how to beg may leave his purse at home

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

He who gives to me teaches me to give.

He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg

He must be pure who would blame another

He knows the water best who has waded through it

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune

It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood

It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one

Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart

While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.

Better the child cry than the old man.

Don't sail out farther than you can row back

Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.

An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them

A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe

A bad tree does not yield good apples

A bad horse eats as much as a good one

A bad hair cut is two people's shame

No man is so tall that he never need stretch and none to small that he never need stoop.

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them

If you can keep yourself with poverty you have no need of riches

If there is room in your hart there is room in your house

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill

The light and the serious go well together

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage