Set a beggar on a horse and he’ll ride to the devil.
More German Proverbs:
Where there is shame, there is virtue.German
Many trades, begging the best.
German
Poverty is the sixth sense.
German
Tis either a hare or a brake-bush.
German
Monks, mice, rats, vermin, seldom sunder without harming.
German
Truth is the daughter of time.
German