Words often do more than blows.
More German Proverbs:
If you have no money, turn placeman! as the court fool said to his sovereign.German
When a man is down, everybody runs over him.
German
With great pleasure, says the boor, when he must.
German
Many see more with one eye that others with two.
German
New doctor, new churchyard.
German
Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.
German