1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 34
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It is a bad well into which one must put water.662.
It is a bad well that you have to fill with water.663.
It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door.664.
It is a hard morsel that chokes.665.
It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.666.
It is bad marketing with empty pockets.667.
It is better to blow than burn your mouth.668.
It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.669.
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.670.
It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them.671.
It is easy to be liberal out of another man's purse.672.
It is easy to cut thongs form other men's leather.673.
It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.674.
It is good fishing in troubled waters.675.
It is good rowing with set sail.676.
It is good rowing with the sail set.677.
It is good sailing with wind and tide.678.
It is good speaking that improves good silence.679.
It is good spinning from another's yarn.680.
It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding.