German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- The unrighteous penny consumes the righteous dollar.
(German Proverb)
- What good is it to run when you are on the wrong road?
(German Proverb)
- Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
(German Proverb)
- A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased.
(German Proverb)
- Choose thy love. Love thy choice.
(German Proverb)
- Great speakers are usually liars.
(German Proverb)
- If you want to be strong, conquer yourself.
(German Proverb)
- Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
(German Proverb)
- Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.
(German Proverb)
- The worst wheel creaks most.
(German Proverb)
- Whatever is to be a nettle, burns early.
(German Proverb)
- You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
(German Proverb)
- A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
(German Proverb)
- Constant dropping wears the stone.
(German Proverb)
- Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
(German Proverb)
- If you want to perform a good jump, sometimes you need to start by taking a step back.
(German Proverb)
- Make yourself an ass, and every one will lay his sack on you.
(German Proverb)
- Speak fair, and think what you will.
(German Proverb)
- There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.
(German Proverb)
- What's sport to you is death to us.
(German Proverb)
- You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
(German Proverb)
- A man has two ears and one mouth that he hear much and speak little.
(German Proverb)
- Contentment is worth more than riches.
(German Proverb)
- Guard your mouth as well as you guard your chest.
(German Proverb)
- In America half an hour is forty minutes.
(German Proverb)
- Many people preach righteousness and perform sins.
(German Proverb)
- Success has many fathers.
(German Proverb)
- There are plenty of preachers who don't hear themselves.
(German Proverb)
- When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
(German Proverb)
- Your friend's enemy might be your best friend.
(German Proverb)
- A penny saved is a penny got.
(German Proverb)
- Doing nothing is doing ill.
(German Proverb)
- He that wants the kernel must crack the nut.
(German Proverb)
- In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria.
(German Proverb)
- Mirth is the sugar of life.
(German Proverb)
- Sue a beggar and get a louse.
(German Proverb)
- Thievery and lying are kissing cousins.
(German Proverb)
- When God gives hard bread he gives sharp teeth.
(German Proverb)
- A shroud has no pockets.
(German Proverb)
- Don't make a mouse of yourself, or else you will be eaten by cats.
(German Proverb)
- He who has lost his freedom has nothing else to lose.
(German Proverb)
- It hasn't doesn't necessarily mean "it won't."
(German Proverb)
- Money leant to a friend must be recovered from an enemy.
(German Proverb)
- Talking is silver, silence is gold.
(German Proverb)
- Those who love in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
(German Proverb)
- When I rest, I rust.
(German Proverb)
- A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass.
(German Proverb)
- Don't sell the bear-skin before you have killed the bear.
(German Proverb)
- He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.
(German Proverb)
- It usually rains where it's already wet.
(German Proverb)
- More is to be got from one teacher than from two books.
(German Proverb)
- Tell me with whom you travel, and I'll tell you who you are.
(German Proverb)
- 'Tis too late to spare, when the bottom is bare.
(German Proverb)
- When need is greatest, God is nearest.
(German Proverb)
- It is bad baking without flour and water.
(German Proverb)
- In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
(German Proverb)
- If you don't want to be hung yourself, blame the dog for stealing the sausage.
(German Proverb)
- If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.
(German Proverb)
- I will not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion.
(German Proverb)
- He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin.
(German Proverb)
- He who takes no care of little things, will not have the care of great ones.
(German Proverb)
- He who marries does well, but who remains single does better.
(German Proverb)
- He who is not for me, is against me.
(German Proverb)
- He who has the fortune brings home the bride.
(German Proverb)
- He who finds what has not been lost, will chance to die before he is ill.
(German Proverb)
- He who cannot paint must grind the colours.
(German Proverb)
- He that says A, must also say B.
(German Proverb)
- He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended.
(German Proverb)
- Good faith is a seldom guest, when you have him, hold him fast.
(German Proverb)
- Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle.
(German Proverb)
- Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
(German Proverb)
- Every herring must hang by its own gill.
(German Proverb)
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
(German Proverb)
- Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to marry.
(German Proverb)
- Bring up a raven, and he will peck out your eyes.
(German Proverb)
- Better an empty purse than an empty head.
(German Proverb)
- As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.
(German Proverb)
- Another man's horse and your own spurs outrun the wind.
(German Proverb)
- All are not free who mock their chains.
(German Proverb)
- A thief who steals from a thief is not a thief.
(German Proverb)
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