1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 60
1181. Time past never returns.
1182. Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
1183. To do nothing teaches evil.
1184. To do nothing teacheth to do evil.
1185. To every fool his cap.
1186. To find the dog in the pot.
1187. To fish behind the net.
1188. To get eggs there must be some cackling.
1189. To get the lid on the nose.
1190. To hang your sickle on another man's corn.
1191. To hit the nail on the head.
1192. To make an elephant out of a mosquito.
1193. To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times -- madness.
1194. To marry one is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness.
1195. To put the horse behind the cart.
1196. To resist with hand and tooth.
1197. To want the last from the pot.
1198. To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing.
1199. To-day red, to-morrow dead.
1200. To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave.