No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn.
More German Proverbs:
The poor must dance as the rich pipe.German
It is a bad hen that lays in neighbour's houses.
German
He who blackens others does not whiten himself.
German
That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth.
German
Summer sown corn and women's advice turn out once in every seven years.
German
He that may not as he wad, maun do as he may.
German