German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- There is no occasion for priests to marry, while peasants have wives.
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- The wood has ears, the field has eyes.
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- The salary of a good servant is never too high.
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- The nearer the church the farther from God.
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- The king of the dreamers lies in the hospital.
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- The fox does not prey near his hole.
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- The devil is never so black as he is painted.
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- The better the fruit, the more wasps to eat it.
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- That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth.
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- Spend not, where you may save; spare not, where you must spend.
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- Self-praise stinks, friends praise hinks, the stranger's is sincere, and may last for a year.
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- Red is Love's colour, said the wooer to his foxy charmer.
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- When the giver comes, the gate opens by itself.
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- When Christ was along, the devil tempted him.
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- What we want in hay we make up in straw.
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- What is right for the one is reasonable for the other.
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- We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.
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- Truth ill-timed is as bad as a lie.
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- To catch rats the cats take off their gloves.
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- Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.
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- They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.
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- When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail.
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- When blind leads the blind, both fall into the ditch.
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- What signifies the barking of a dog that don't bite?
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- What is not taken by the Church is taken by the Exchequer.
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- We give to the rich, and take from the poor.
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- Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about.
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- To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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- Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst.
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- They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days.
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- When the fox preaches, look to your geese.
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- When a thing is done, make the best of it.
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- What three know will soon be known to thirty.
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- What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing.
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- We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.
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- Trusting too much to others has been the ruin of many.
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- To believe everything is too much, to believe nothing is not enough.
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- Though you seat the frog on a golden stool, he'll soon jump off again into the pool.
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- They love the old that do not know the new.
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- When the dog is awake, the shepherd may sleep.
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- When a man is rich, he begins to save.
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- What the peacock has too little on his head, he has too much on his tail.
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- What God haith joined together, let no man put asunder.
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- We do in haste what we repent at leisure.
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- True friendship does not freeze in the winter.
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- To act in anger is like tying up a ship in a storm.
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- Those who wade in unknown waters will be sure to be drowned.
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- They are not all hunters who blow horns.
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- When the devil reigns today God will be master tomorrow.
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- When a man is down, everybody runs over him.
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- What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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- What does the moon care if the dogs bay at her?
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- We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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- Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
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- 'Tis written, "What's not your own, that let alone."
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- Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please.
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- They are not all friends who laugh with you.
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- When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall.
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- When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
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- What the farmer does not know he doesn't eat.
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- What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
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- We beat the sack and mean the miller.
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- Too many sacks are the death of the ass.
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- Tis too late to spare when the pocket is bare.
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- Those who don't pick roses in summer won't pick them in winter either.
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- They are not all cooks who carry long knives.
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- When silent men speak they speak to the purpose.
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- What's the use of putting honey in an ass's mouth.
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- What should a cow do with a nutmeg?
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- What bird so white as mine? says the crow.
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- Water quenches the thirst but does not teach you how to sing.
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- Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
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- Tis one beggar's woe, to see another by the door go.
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- Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
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- There's seldom a cake but there's more of the make.
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- When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
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- What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade?
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- What one knows it is useful sometimes to forget.
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- What belongs to the ravens is never drowned.
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- Water is the strongest drink; it drives mills.
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