It is not about the marbles, but about the game
Dutch Proverb
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FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
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DUTCH PROVERB Faith is good, but it is better to check.
DUTCH PROVERB He sleeps with the bride.
DUTCH PROVERB It are not the bad apples that wasps eat.
DUTCH PROVERB You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs
DUTCH PROVERB One should not hatch all eggs under the same hen.
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DUTCH PROVERB The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served.
DUTCH PROVERB You can not pick a bald chicken
DUTCH PROVERB One should not wake a sleeping dog.
DUTCH PROVERB One can bend young twigs, not old trees.
DUTCH PROVERB You should shave your sheep when they have wool.
DUTCH PROVERB It is better to confess under the gallows, then not at all
DUTCH PROVERB The geese are fed, but you have to pluck them
DUTCH PROVERB It is better to remove the beam from your eye, before you remove the splinter from someone elses.
DUTCH PROVERB Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it.
DUTCH PROVERB Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet.
DUTCH PROVERB To eat from both shores
DUTCH PROVERB You can't bake an omelet without breaking an egg
DUTCH PROVERB Cucumbers are like virgins, they do not keep long
DUTCH PROVERB Neighbours grass is always greener.
DUTCH PROVERB Visitors and fish, remain fresh for 3 days.
DUTCH PROVERB He is in beans, but picks peas
DUTCH PROVERB He has a hart of gold
DUTCH PROVERB If Moses is not coming to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Moses
DUTCH PROVERB There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
DUTCH PROVERB Time slides like sand through your fingers.
DUTCH PROVERB When the cat is not home, the mice will dance on the table.
DUTCH PROVERB He waits long that waits for another man's death
DUTCH PROVERB To promise a lot, and give a litte, make a fool live happily.
DUTCH PROVERB If the cock does not crow before sunset,it either will rain the next day, or the cock is dead.
DUTCH PROVERB It is lonely at the top.
DUTCH PROVERB He who sow wind, will harvest storm
DUTCH PROVERB No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases
DUTCH PROVERB A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains
DUTCH PROVERB Honesty is the soul of business
DUTCH PROVERB Opportunity creates desire.
DUTCH PROVERB Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm
DUTCH PROVERB Anger is a short madness
DUTCH PROVERB Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
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DUTCH PROVERB Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
DUTCH PROVERB A beautiful woman is never exclusive.
DUTCH PROVERB Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free
DUTCH PROVERB A tree does not fall at it's first cut
DUTCH PROVERB Attack makes the best defense
DUTCH PROVERB Patience and grass will become milk.
DUTCH PROVERB A beautiful woman and a wooden boat are very expensive in maintenance.
DUTCH PROVERB He who never tickles himself, never laughs
DUTCH PROVERB He who has butter on his head, should stay out of the sun.
DUTCH PROVERB A young bum, makes an old beggar.
DUTCH PROVERB Pick the rose, not the thorns
DUTCH PROVERB Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
DUTCH PROVERB Many become brave when the fiend flees.
DUTCH PROVERB The hunt is better then the prey.
DUTCH PROVERB The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
DUTCH PROVERB Even clean apples can be sour.
DUTCH PROVERB To grab a cow by the horns
DUTCH PROVERB Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
DUTCH PROVERB We grow too soon old and too late smart
DUTCH PROVERB Better lose the anchor than the whole ship
DUTCH PROVERB No matter how fast a lie is, the truth will catch up with her.
DUTCH PROVERB You can't share loneliness.
DUTCH PROVERB The tree of revenge does not carry fruit
DUTCH PROVERB Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain
DUTCH PROVERB Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong
DUTCH PROVERB It is better to remove the weeds from your own garden, before you start with your neighbours.
DUTCH PROVERB When you want to marry a prince you will have to kiss many frogs.
DUTCH PROVERB When two quarrel, both are to blame
DUTCH PROVERB Many small streams make one big river.
DUTCH PROVERB Pick the goose as long as it has feathers
DUTCH PROVERB A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.
DUTCH PROVERB Barking dogs won't bite.
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PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
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