Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Dan wrote:
Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Go early to bed and get up early. Serious! "De ochtendstond heeft goud in de mond"
Gold??? :-?
It seems more like lead to me!
That's why I didn't translate it literally. I hoped a Dutchie would know an English equivalent to this.
The only one I can come up with is "It´s the early bird that catches the worm"or something like that.
Since we have the same saying in swedish "Morgonstund har guld i mun.":-) as you do in Dutch, I assume that it´s orginally a german saying.