A handful of might is better than a sack full of right.
More German Proverbs:
What's sport to you is death to us. [Fable of Boys and Frogs.]German
One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.
German
Poor people's words go many to a sackful.
German
Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
German
It is difficult to scare people who think they will profit from dying.
German
He whose mistress squints, says the ogles.
German