Het is een goed spreker die een goed zwijger verbeterd.It is good speaking that improves good silence.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Schoone woorden vullen den zak niet.Fair words won’t fill the sack.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSpreken is zilver, zwijgen is goud.Speaking is silver, silence is gold.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSteek uw vinger in geen dwazens mond.Thrust not thy finger in a fool’s mouth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGeen stouter belovers dan die niets te geven hebben.No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMeet driemaal eer gij eens snijd.Measure thrice before you cut once.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHoe meerder dienstboden hoe slechter dienst.The more servants the worse service.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesGroot-sprekers zijn geene groot-daders.Great talkers are little doers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDie hem zelf kittelt, lacht als hij wil.He that tickles himself, may laugh when he will.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHij is te vangen als een haas met een trommel.He is as easily caught as a hare with drums.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAls alle de waerelt ziet dat gij een verken zijt, eu moet gij niet in ’t schot?When every one sees that you are a pig, why don’t you go into the sty?
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDomines komen om je wijn, en officiers om je dochters.Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBeter een die ’t heeft gezien, dan van hooren zeggen tien.Better one eye-witness than ten hearsay witnesses.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesStille waters hebben diepe gronden.Still waters are deep.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEen ei is een ei zei de boer, en hij greep naar het ganzenei.An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose’s egg.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNog beter is het, verloren arbeid gedaan, dan in ledigheid zich te verliezen.Better lose your labour than your time in idleness.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNa hooge vloeden diepe ebben.After high floods come low ebbs.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAls God een land plagen wil, dan beneemt hij den heeren hunne wijsheid.When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn het land der blinden is een-oog koning.In the land of the blind the one-eyed is a king.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTijd en plaats doen den dief stelen.Time and place make the thief.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn het land van belofte sterft men wel van honger.In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVan de vonken brandt ’t huis.From a spark the house is burnt.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAls de muis zat is, zo wordt het meel bitter.When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHet is beter te bedelen dan te stelen.Better beg than steal.
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Read the saying and check its sources