1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 63
1241.
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.1242.
What the farmer doesn't recognize, he doesn't eat.1243.
What the heart is full of, the mouth runs over with.1244.
What the old ones sing, the young ones whistle.1245.
What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells.1246.
What the soldier said isn't evidence.1247.
When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.1248.
When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?1249.
When an old dog barks, look out.1250.
When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.1251.
When bale is hext, boot is next.1252.
When cats are mousing they don't mew.1253.
When every one sees that you are a pig, why don't you go into the sty?1254.
When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death.1255.
When fools go to market, pedlars make money.1256.
When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.1257.
When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom.1258.
When God pleases, it rains with every wind.1259.
When God will not, the saints cannot.1260.
When had comes, have is too late.