Schoenmaker, blijf bij u leest.Shoemaker, stick to your last.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Schoenmaker, blijf bij u leest.Shoemaker, stick to your last.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVoor stroom en wind is goed zeilen.It is good sailing with wind and tide.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDek toe den pot, daar is aal in.Cover up the pot, there’s an eel in it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDer bedelaren hand is eene bodemlooze mand.A beggar’s hand is a bottomless basket.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesZoo gij zaait zoo zult gij maaien.As you sow you shall reap.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlle wolken regenen niet.All clouds do not rain.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe kruik gaat zo lang te water dat zij eindelyk breekt.The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesWater in de zee brengen.To carry water to the sea.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNa de ebbe komt de vloed, en de vrienden met het goed.After ebb comes flood, and friends with good.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUit den overvloed des harten spreekt de mond.Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEen schurftig schaap bederft de heele kudde.One scabby sheep infects the whole flock.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVerdraagt het geen gij door uw eigen schuld lijdt.Bear patiently that which thou sufferest by thine own fault.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVoorzigtigheid is de moeder der fijne bierglazen.Caution is the parent of delicate beer-glasses.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDaar men ’t minst verwacht, springt de haas uit de gracht.When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAls God een mensch plagen wil, dan bijt hem wel een muis dood.When it is God’s will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEen man overboord, een eter te minder.A man overboard, a mouth the less.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAls elk voor zijn huis veegt, zoo worden alle straten schoon.Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would be clean.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDwalen is menschelijk.To err is human.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe derde man brengt de vreugd aan.The third person makes good company.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAls de armoede de deur binnenkomt, vliegt de liefde het venster uit.Where poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEen groot boek, een groot kwaad.A great book is a great evil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTwee honden aan een been komen zelden overeen.Two dogs seldom agree over one bone.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBlaffende honden bijten niet.Barking dogs don’t bite.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIk heb alles van goud en zilver, zelfs mijne koperen ketels, zei de grootspreker.All my goods are of silver and gold, even my copper kettles, says the boaster.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources