Famous quotes containing the words dutch saying, common and/or dutch:
“You can’t walk on one leg.”
—Dutch saying encouraging someone to have another drink, trans. by Johanna C. Prins.
“The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.