1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 39
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It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.762.
It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.763.
It is easy to be generous with another man's money.764.
It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him.765.
It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom.766.
It is easy to manage when fortune favors.767.
It is easy to poke another man's fire.768.
It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.769.
It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.770.
It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head.771.
It is folly to drown on dry land.772.
It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.773.
It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.774.
It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into your own.775.
It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.776.
It is good to lend to God and to the soil--they pay good interest.777.
It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.778.
It is good to sleep in a whole skin.779.
It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.780.
It is hard to labour with an empty belly.