1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 78
- 771. It is folly to drown on dry land.
 - 772. It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.
- 773. It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.
- 774. It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into your own.
- 775. It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
- 776. It is good to lend to God and to the soil--they pay good interest.
- 777. It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.
- 778. It is good to sleep in a whole skin.
- 779. It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.
- 780. It is hard to labour with an empty belly.
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