The unexpected always happens.
More German Proverbs:
Another man's horse and your own spurs outrun the wind.German
There is always room at the top.
German
Everyone wipes his feet on poverty.
German
Stagnant water grows stinking.
German
A monk in his cloister, a fish in the water, a thief in the gallows.
German
Neutrals are soused from above, and singed from below.
German