1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 76
- 751. It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.
 - 752. It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.
- 753. It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.
- 754. It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.
- 755. It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.
- 756. It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger.
- 757. It is difficult to trap an old fox.
- 758. It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one.
- 759. It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eye.
- 760. It is easier to stem the brook than the river.
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