1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 53
1041.
Praise a fair day in the evening.1042.
Praise a fool, and you may make him useful.1043.
Praise borrowed from ancestors is but very sorry praise.1044.
Praise is not pudding.1045.
Praise is the hire of virtue.1046.
Praise paves the way to friendship.1047.
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.1048.
Precipitate counsel--perilous deed.1049.
Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked.1050.
Pretty children sing pretty songs.1051.
Pride will have a fall.1052.
Profit is better than fame.1053.
Promises and undressed cloth are apt to shrink.1054.
Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.1055.
Quick and well seldom go together.1056.
Rain comes oft after sunshine, and after a dark cloud a clear sky.1057.
Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.1058.
Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.1059.
Reconciled friendship is like a badly healed wound.1060.
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.