Gissen doet missen.Guessing is missing.
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Wie zonder eten gaat te bed, dien wordt het slapen ligt belet.Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione olandese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVeel kleintjes maken een groot.Many littles make a mickle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHet moet een wijze hand zijn, die een zotte kop wel scheeren zal.It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool’s head.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVerloren eer, keert nimmermeer.Honour once lost never returns.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMen vangt meer vliegen met een’ lepel stroop dan met een vat azijn.More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a cask of vinegar.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesWat u niet brand, dat koel niet.That which burns thee not, cool not.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHonger is de beste saus.Hunger is the best sauce.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBlijven doet beklijven.Biding makes thriving.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDie veel hoort, hoort veel liegen.He that hears much, hears many lies.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLust maakt den arbeid ligt.Love makes labour light.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe boer zit op een’ cent als de duivel op eene ziel.The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDat is een man als een boek.He is a man as a book.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe duivel heeft mede onder de menschen zijne marteren.The devil has his martyrs among men.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIn den nood leert men zijne vrienden kennen.Friends are known in time of need.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAls de kat slaapt, spelen de muizen.When the cat sleeps, the mice play.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesStrooit geen rozen voor varkens.Strew no roses before swine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHij heeft hem onder den duim.He has him under his thumb.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVerstandigen staan naar ampten en de dom-ooren krijgen ze.Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get them.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEen eerlijk man’s woord is zijn zegel.An honest man’s word is his bond.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIemand den zak geeven.To give one the sack.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe armoede is de moeder van alle kunsten.Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesWie veeltijds spiegelen, zelden spinnen.They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSlapende honden zal men niet wakker maken.Wake not a sleeping dog.
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