Danish proverb Quotes

Blame is a lazy man's wages.

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

Roses fall, but the thorns remain.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Wise men do not quarrel with each other.

Fish and guests smell at three days old.

Opportunity creates desire.

There are no better masters than poverty and wants.

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Slander expires at a good woman's door.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.

Sight before hearsay.

Many have too much, but none enough.