1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 13
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Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh.242.
Better a bite from a friend than a caress from an enemy.243.
Better a daughter that has been slept on than a son who has been hanged.244.
Better a friend's bite than an enemy's caress.245.
Better a little furniture than an empty house.246.
Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety and strife.247.
Better a poor horse than an empty stall.248.
Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on another man's.249.
Better an open enemy than a false friend.250.
Better ask twice than lose your way once.251.
Better ask twice than to lose your way once.252.
Better be convinced by words than by blows.253.
Better blow hard than burn yourself.254.
Better coarse cloth than naked thighs.255.
Better come late to church than never.256.
Better cross an angry man than a fasting man.257.
Better half a loaf than none at all.258.
Better in an old carriage than in a new ship.259.
Better is the branch that bends, than the branch that breaks.260.
Better is the evil known than the good which is yet to know.