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• Alle vil leve længe, men ingen vil være gammel.
• Den fraværende er aldrig uden fejl. Ej heller den tilstedeværende uden undskyldning.
• Den kloge behøver intet rÃ¥d. TÃ¥ben vil ikke tage imod det.
• Den, som bliver forelsket i sig selv, har ingen rivaler.
• Den, som ikke vil rÃ¥des, kan ikke hjælpes.
• Den, som lever pÃ¥ hÃ¥bet, dør fastende.
• Der findes tre trofaste venner: en gammel hustru, en gammel hund og rede penge
• Der har aldrig været en god krig eller en dÃ¥rlig fred.
• Det bedste er det billigste.
• Det er dÃ¥rlig opførsel at bringe en idiot til tavshed, og grusomhed at lade ham fortsætte.
• Det, som begynder i vrede, ender i skam.
• Elsker du livet? SÃ¥ spild ikke tiden, for den er det stof, livet er lavet af
• En enlig mand har ikke nær den værdi, som han ville have, hvis han var gift. Han er et ufuldstændigt dyr. Han ligner den ene halvdel af en saks.
• En god samvittighed er uafbrudt jul.
• En landmand mellem to advokater er som en fisk mellem to katte.
• En ungkarl er et ufuldstændigt dyr; han ligner halvdelen af en saks.
• Erfaringens skole har høje udgifter, men for tosser findes der ingen anden.
• Et uordentligt skrivebord er et tegn pÃ¥ en ordentlig tankegang.
• Godt gjort er bedre end godt sagt.
• Gud helbreder, og lægen tager honoraret.
• Gud kurerer, lægen tager honoraret.
• Gæster og fisk begynder at lugte efter tre dage.
• Han var sÃ¥ lærd, at han kunne sige hat pÃ¥ ni sprog, men sÃ¥ uvidende, at han købte en ko til at ride pÃ¥.
• Hold øjnene vidt Ã¥bne inden du gifter dig, men luk dem halvt i, nÃ¥r du er blevet gift.
• Hvem har bedraget dig sÃ¥ ofte som du selv?
• Hvis du vil vide, hvad penge er værd - sÃ¥ forsøg at lÃ¥ne nogen.
• Ingenting er sikkert her i verden, undtagen døden og skatterne.
• Løg kan tilmed fÃ¥ arvinger og enker til at græde.
• Man kunne opfostre to børn for, hvad det koster at have en last.
• Pas pÃ¥ en ung læge og en gammel barber.
• Pas pÃ¥ med smÃ¥ udgifter; en lille læk vil sænke et stort skib.
• Rige enker er de eneste som sælges fordrukne til nypris.
• Skjul ikke dine evner. De er givet for at blive brugt. Til hvad nytte er et solur i skyggen?
• Skriv i sand de uretfærdigheder, du møder - mejsl i sten de velgerninger, du kommer ud for.
• Vask din finger før du peger pÃ¥ mine pletter.
• Velsignet er den, som intet forventet, for han vil aldrig blive skuffet.
• Øl er beviset pÃ¥, at Gud elsker os og vil, at vi skal være lykkelige.

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• A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
• A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors
• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
• At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
• Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
• Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
• Do'st thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of
• Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
• Fatigue is the best pillow.
• Fish and visitors smell in three days.
• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
• God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. , (1789)
• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
• He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.
• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
• He who won't be counseled can't be helped.
• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
• Hunger is the best pickle.
• If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
• If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing
• In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes
• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards
• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
• Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it
• Necessity never made a good bargain
• Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it
• One good Husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are the more they're valued.
• Our necessities never equal our wants.
• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
• Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
• The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
• The discontented man finds no easy chair.
• The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
• The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
• The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
• Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
• To err is human, to repent divine; to persist, devilish.
• To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
• Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
• Where liberty is, there is my country.
• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
• You may delay, but time will not.