Danish ProverbsDefinitions

Advice ought to be asked of one's equals, while help is asked of one's superiors.

Advice is a thing which to give after injury is like giving medicine after death.

Almost kills no man.

Art is art, despite its success.

Beauty is a fading flower.

Beauty carries its dowry in its face.

Bread is better than the song of birds.

The Child is certain sorrow, but uncertain joy.

Criticism is a terrible feeling. Getting a bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Death is a dying man’s friend.

Drinking is liquid honesty. What is on a drunken man's lips is on a sober man's mind.

Hunger is a sharp sword in a healthy stomach.

Hunger is better to cross an angry man than a fasting man.