German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- A good conscience is a soft pillow.
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- Blaming is easy; doing better is more difficult.
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- Fools build houses, wise men buy them.
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- If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark.
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- Loving and singing are two things that should not be forced.
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- Schnapps is schnapps and business is business.
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- The unrighteous penny consumes the righteous dollar.
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- What good is it to run when you are on the wrong road?
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- Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
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- A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased.
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- Choose thy love. Love thy choice.
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- Great speakers are usually liars.
(German Proverb)
- If you want to be strong, conquer yourself.
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- Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
(German Proverb)
- Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.
(German Proverb)
- The worst wheel creaks most.
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- Whatever is to be a nettle, burns early.
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- You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
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- A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
(German Proverb)
- Constant dropping wears the stone.
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- Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
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- If you want to perform a good jump, sometimes you need to start by taking a step back.
(German Proverb)
- Make yourself an ass, and every one will lay his sack on you.
(German Proverb)
- Speak fair, and think what you will.
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- There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.
(German Proverb)
- What's sport to you is death to us.
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- You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
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- A man has two ears and one mouth that he hear much and speak little.
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- Contentment is worth more than riches.
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- Guard your mouth as well as you guard your chest.
(German Proverb)
- In America half an hour is forty minutes.
(German Proverb)
- Many people preach righteousness and perform sins.
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- Success has many fathers.
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- There are plenty of preachers who don't hear themselves.
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- When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
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- Your friend's enemy might be your best friend.
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- A penny saved is a penny got.
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- Doing nothing is doing ill.
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- He that wants the kernel must crack the nut.
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- In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria.
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- Mirth is the sugar of life.
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- Sue a beggar and get a louse.
(German Proverb)
- Thievery and lying are kissing cousins.
(German Proverb)
- When God gives hard bread he gives sharp teeth.
(German Proverb)
- A shroud has no pockets.
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- Don't make a mouse of yourself, or else you will be eaten by cats.
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- He who has lost his freedom has nothing else to lose.
(German Proverb)
- It hasn't doesn't necessarily mean "it won't."
(German Proverb)
- Money leant to a friend must be recovered from an enemy.
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- Talking is silver, silence is gold.
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- Those who love in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
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- When I rest, I rust.
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- A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass.
(German Proverb)
- Don't sell the bear-skin before you have killed the bear.
(German Proverb)
- He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.
(German Proverb)
- It usually rains where it's already wet.
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- More is to be got from one teacher than from two books.
(German Proverb)
- Tell me with whom you travel, and I'll tell you who you are.
(German Proverb)
- 'Tis too late to spare, when the bottom is bare.
(German Proverb)
- When need is greatest, God is nearest.
(German Proverb)
- A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence.
(German Proverb)
- Don't throw away your old shoes until you have a new pair.
(German Proverb)
- He who is quick to borrow, is slow to pay.
(German Proverb)
- It's better to have no spoon than to have no soup.
(German Proverb)
- No person can like all, or be liked by all.
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- The ass and his driver do not think alike.
(German Proverb)
- To blame is easy, to do it better is difficult.
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- When the thief is seen stealing, he says he is joking; but when the thief is not seen, he steals.
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- All are not cooks who carry long knives.
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- Enough is better than a sackful.
(German Proverb)
- He who tickles himself may laugh when he pleases.
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- It's hard to scare a person who thinks he will benefit from dying.
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- Nothing dries sooner than tears.
(German Proverb)
- The belly does not have a conscience.
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- To change and to change for the better are two different things.
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- When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs.
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- Ambition and fleas jump high.
(German Proverb)
- Every lion has to defend himself against flies.
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- He who tickles himself, laughs when he likes.
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- Jealousy is a pain that seeks what caused it.
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