Everybody knows good counsel except him who has need of it.
More German Proverbs:
He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.German
The sun-dial counts only the bright hours.
German
Marry in May, rue for aye.
German
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
German
He who is always drinking and stuffing, will in time become a ragamuffin.
German
Time is the herald of truth.
German