Pieter Bruegel I - To run one's head against a brick wall

Pieter Bruegel the elder - Twelve proverbs [1558] -

Antwerp, Museum Mayer van der Berg -

Source: VisitFlanders

 

The Dutch inscription reads as follows:

Crygel ben ick, en van sinnen stuer,

dus loop ick met den hooffde tegen den muer.

 

The free English translation:

I am touchy and out of my senses bull-headed,

so I bang my head against a brick wall.

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