1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 32
621.
Hungry flies bite sore.622.
I am not here to catch flies.623.
I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please.624.
I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time.625.
I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.626.
I wot well how the world wags, He is most loved that hath most bags.627.
I'll sleep on it.628.
Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.629.
If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.630.
If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.631.
If he waits long enough the world will be his own.632.
If he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.633.
If one won't another will.634.
If one, two and three say you are an ass, put on the ears.635.
If the rope is weak, pull gently.636.
If thou touchest pitch thou shalt be defiled.637.
If you eat someone's cake, you must also eat his lentils.638.
If you hear a lot of things, you will hear a lot of lies.639.
If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak.640.
Ill begun, ill done.