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Flemish/Belgian Proverbs and Sayings

Belgium is not only famous for their most scrumptious Belgian chocolates and waffles and beautiful crochets and lace, they also have some food for thoughts to share to the world.

Flemish/Belgian Proverbs and Sayings

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of knowledge.
– Belgium
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Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
– Belgium

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Honour is better than honours.
– Belgium
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It is better to warn than to be warned.
– Belgium
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It isn’t in a coal-sack that one finds while flour.
– Belgium
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In a stable there may be a steed and an ass.
– Belgium
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No stone ever falls alone.
– Belgian
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Someone without a friend is like the right hand without the left.
– Belgium

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Three are too many and two are too few.

– Belgian
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The one who strikes first, strike twice.
– Belgium
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To build, one must have two purses.
– Belgium
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Those who live with hope die with desire.
– Belgium
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What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand.
– Flemish Proverb

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Who sieves too much, keeps the rubbish.
– Belgium
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