How easily a hair gets into the butter!
More German Proverbs:
No one knows better where the shoe pinches that he who wears it.German
The sweetest grapes hang highest.
German
To believe everything is too much, to believe nothing is not enough.
German
Neighbour once over the hedge, neighbour over it again.
German
Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.
German
Light is light, though the blind man see it not.
German