All your geese are swans.
More German Proverbs:
The nearer the inn, the longer the road.German
Every one must pay his debt to nature.
German
Great thieves hang little thieves.
German
Not all flowers are fit for nosegays.
German
Sweat makes good mortar.
German
O what we must suffer for the sake of God's church! said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers.
German