German Proverbs on Dogs (29 Proverbs)
- I would rather have a dog as a friend than an enemy.
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- There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.
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- When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs.
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- If you want to live long, be healthy and fat, drink like a dog and eat like a cat.
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- If you don't want to be hung yourself, blame the dog for stealing the sausage.
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- I would rather have a dog my friend than enemy.
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- I will not bite any dog, says the shepherd's dog, for I must save my teeth for the wolf.
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- He who stands godfather to a wolf should have a dog under his cloak.
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- He who goes to bed with dogs, will wake up with fleas.
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- He that pelts every barking dog, must pick up a great many stones.
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- A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.
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- A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.
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- The silent dog is the first to bite.
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- The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.
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- The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail.
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- The skinnier the dog, the more fleas he has.
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- When the dog is awake, the shepherd may sleep.
(German Proverb)
- What signifies the barking of a dog that don't bite?
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- What does the moon care if the dogs bay at her?
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- To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.
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- Would you live long, be healthy and fat, drink like a dog and eat like a cat.
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- Timid dogs bark most.
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- What! keep a dog and bark myself?
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- Let sleeping dogs lie.
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- The dogs bite the last.
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- Barking dogs don't bite.
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- Dead dogs don't bite.
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- Dogs that bark much don't bite.
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- A bashful dog never fattens.
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