One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
More German Proverbs:
The world likes to have night-owls, that it may have matter for wonder.German
They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.
German
The more noble, the more humble.
German
What is no sin, is no shame.
German
Don't change horses in midstream.
German
Old oxen tread hard.
German