1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 42
821.
It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.822.
It needs a high wall to keep out fear.823.
It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.824.
It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.825.
It takes a good many mice to kill a cat.826.
It takes many words to fill a sack.827.
It's no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient.828.
It's possible to light another man's candle without damaging your own.829.
Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning.830.
Jest with your equals.831.
Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones.832.
Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.833.
Justice oft leans to the side where the purse pulls.834.
Keep not two tongues in one mouth.835.
Keep to the little ones, and the big ones will not bite you.836.
Keep your mouth, and keep your friend.837.
Keep your nose out of another's mess.838.
Keep your nose to the grindstone.839.
Kill no more than you can salt, or you will have tainted meat.840.
Kind words and few are a woman's ornament.