1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 23
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From children and drunks will you hear the truth.442.
From children you must expect childish acts.443.
From clogs to clogs is only three generations.444.
From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller.445.
Gifts make friendship lasting.446.
Gifts should be handed, not thrown.447.
Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig, and a bad child.448.
Give a rogue an inch, and he will take an ell.449.
Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.450.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.451.
Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.452.
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.453.
God comes at last, when we think he is farthest off.454.
God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands.455.
God feeds the birds that use their wings.456.
God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.457.
God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest.458.
God gives little folks small gifts.459.
God gives the will, necessity gives the law.460.
God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.