Stretch yourself according to your cover-lid.
More German Proverbs:
Rest comes from unrest, and unrest from rest.German
What one knows it is useful sometimes to forget.
German
The husband's mother is the wife's devil.
German
Between the hand and the lip the soup may be spilt.
German
Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.
German
A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
German