1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 37
721.
It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.722.
It is a bad well that need water to be carried to it.723.
It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.724.
It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat's ear.725.
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.726.
It is a great art to laught at your own misfortune.727.
It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest.728.
It is a poor horse that is not worth his oats.729.
It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.730.
It is a poor roast that gives no dripping.731.
It is a wise child that knows its own father.732.
It is an ill turn that does no good to any one.733.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.734.
It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.735.
It is as cheap sitting as standing.736.
It is as much intemperance to weep too much, as to laugh too much.737.
It is as well to be naked as to have no covering.738.
It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs.739.
It is bad iron in which there is no steel.740.
It is bad to be between two fires.