Het is goedt feest houden op een anders zaal.It’s good feasting in another’s hall.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Het is goed snijden riemen uit eens andermans leer.It is easy to cut thongs from other men’s leather.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIs de eene traag, de ander is graag.If one won’t another will.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesWat de nuchtere denkt, dat spreekt de dronkaard.What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMet al te veel kakelens, wordt de waarheid verloren.Truth is lost with too much debating.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEen haan is stout op zijn eigen erf.A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGenoeg is even zoo goed als een feest.Enough is as good as a feast.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMen vangt het paard bij den breidel, en den man bij zijn woord.Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDie te goed is, wordt van de boozen verongelijkt.Who is righteous overmuch is a morsel for the Old One.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe dertiende man brengt den dood an.The thirteenth man brings death.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHij heeft den wolf gezien.He has seen the wolf.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHet geld is de zenuw des oorlogs.Money is the sinew of war.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBeter door een’ ezel gedragen, dan door een paard in ’t zand geslagen.Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlle hanen moeten een kam hebben.All cocks must have a comb.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEen gehuurd paard en eigene sporen maken korte mijlen.A hired horse and one’s own spurs make short miles.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNooit ambtje zoo kleen, of het is beter dan geen.No office so humble but it is better than nothing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEen diamant van eene dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw.A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGod beware mij voor iemand die maar één boekje gelezen heeft.God deliver me from the man of one book.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRook, stank, en kwaade wijven zijn die de mans uit de huizen drijven.Smoke, stench, and a troublesome wife are what drive men from home.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDat biertje hebt gij zelf gebrouwd, en moet het ook uit drinken.That beer’s of your own brewing, and you must drink it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHet eene kwaad brengt het andere mede.One misfortune brings on another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDreigers vechten niet.All threateners don’t fight.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe koe weet niet waar haar de staart toe dient, voor dat zij die kwijt is.The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHij treedt zoo moedig als een Engelsche haan.He struts as valiantly as an English cock.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources