German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- The best is the enemy of the good.
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- Talking is easier than doing, and promising than performing.
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- So long as the belly is silent all whores are virgins.
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- Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he had it.
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- There is always a Pharaoh who does not know Joseph.
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- The will is the soul of the work.
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- The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
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- The more you stir the mire, the more it stinks.
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- The higher the bell is hung, the shriller it sounds.
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- The fault of another is a good teacher.
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- The concealer is as bad as the thief.
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- The best go first, the bad remain to mend.
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- Talk of the devil, and his imp appears.
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- So it goes in the world: one has the purse, the other has the gold.
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- Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, for forty days it will remain; Saint Swithun's day, if thou bring rain, for forty days it will remain.
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- There come just as many calf-skins as cow-skins to market.
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- The tree must be bent while it is young.
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- The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.
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- The more the well is used, the more water it yields.
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- The higher flood hath always the lower ebb.
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- The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.
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- The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he knows it by heart.
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- The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold.
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- Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
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- Small profits and often, are better than large profits and seldom.
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- Saint Martin was an easy man, he loved to drink Cerevisiam; and when he'd no Pecuniam, he left in pledge his Tunicam.
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- There are only two good women in the world; the one is dead, the other not to be found.
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- The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows.
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- The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
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- The more shepherds there are, the worse the flocks are watched.
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- The higher a monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.
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- The fairer the hostess, the heavier the reckoning.
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- The cock is king on his own dunghill.
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- The beadle's cow may graze in the churchyard.
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- Take one step to hell and you are already half way there.
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- Slaughter no more than you can well salt.
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- Safe over the bridge, one laughs at St. Nepomuck.
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- There are no bad beers; some kinds are better than others.
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- The sun will shine into our yard too.
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- The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it gets broken at last.
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- The more light a torch gives the shorter it lasts.
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- The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already.
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- The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
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- The cock is a lord on his own dunghill.
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- The bailiff's cow and another's cow are two different cows.
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- Take care of your plough, and your plough will take care of you.
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- Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.
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- Running and buying don't go together -- running and selling do.
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- There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.
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- The sun will bring to light what lay under the snow.
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- The only real equality is in the cemetery.
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- The monk's habit is never so blessed that the devil can't hide in it.
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- The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
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- The end of wrath is the beginning of repentance.
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- The chickens don't mourn when the poulterer dies.
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- The bachelor is a peacock, the engaged man a lion, and the married man a jackass.
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- Take all you want; eat all you take.
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- Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.
(German Proverb)
- Riches abuse them who know not how to use them.
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- There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
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- The stubborn man is ruled by a fool.
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- The one-eyed is a king among the blind.
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- The misery is that you have to ruin your day with work.
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- The greatest things are done by the help of small ones.
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- The empty waggon must make room for the full one.
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- The chamois climbs high and yet is caught.
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- The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.
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- Take a horse to the knacker, and throw in bridle and saddle.
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- Silk and velvet put out the kitchen fire.
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- Revenge of an hundred years old hath still its sucking teeth.
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- There are more old tipplers than old doctors.
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- The strong man's sport is the sickly man's death.
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- The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
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- The miller's hen and widower's maid, of want need never be afraid.
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- The greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself.
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- The egg will be more knowing than the hen.
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- The cats that drive away mice are as food as those that catch them.
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- The ass carries corn to the mill, and gets thistles.
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- Summer sown corn and women's advice turn out once in every seven years.
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- Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.
(German Proverb)
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