1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 38
741.
It is bad to lean against a falling wall.742.
It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.743.
It is best to be on the safe side.744.
It is best to play with equals.745.
It is best to trust to two anchors.746.
It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.747.
It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.748.
It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it.749.
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.750.
It is bitter fare to eat one's own words.751.
It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.752.
It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.753.
It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.754.
It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.755.
It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.756.
It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger.757.
It is difficult to trap an old fox.758.
It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one.759.
It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eye.760.
It is easier to stem the brook than the river.