1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 69
1361.
Well begun is half done.1362.
What is done cannot be undone.1363.
What is got by begging is dearly bought.1364.
What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.1365.
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.1366.
What is play to the strong is death to the weak.1367.
What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach.1368.
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.1369.
What you are is God's gift to you what you do with yourself is your gift to God.1370.
What you cannot say briefly you do not know.1371.
What you do yourself is well done.1372.
What you learn to your cost you remember long.1373.
What youth learns, age does not forget.1374.
What. give the lettuce in charge to the geese.1375.
When a man is in a sack, he must get out at the mouth or at the bottom.1376.
When a man is not liked, whatever he doth is amiss.1377.
When anger blinds the eyes, truth disappears.1378.
When dirt comes to honour it know not what to be.1379.
When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing.1380.
When every one minds his own business the work is done.