Your words are fair, said the wolf, “but I will not come into the village.”
More German Proverbs:
Tell no tales out of school.German
If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.
German
All your geese are swans.
German
If fools were to eat no bread, corn would be cheap.
German
Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst.
German
He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial.
German