German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- A lie becomes true when one believes it.
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- A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
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- In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
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- If you want equality, then go to the graveyard.
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- If there be a hell, Rome is built over it.
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- If fools were to eat no bread, corn would be cheap.
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- How many daily read the Bible, and yet pursue their course of evil.
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- He who will have eggs, must bear with the cackling.
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- He who puts his nose in a turd does not know what he is smelling.
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- He who listens to a proposition is already half sold.
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- He who inherits a farthing, is expected to disburse a dollar.
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- He who has good neighbours, gets a good morning.
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- He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.
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- He who always thinks it is too soon, is sure to come too late.
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- He that has no head, need no hat.
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- Greatness alone in not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare.
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- God forgives sinners, otherwise His heaven would be empty.
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- Follow Love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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- Every one is glad to see a knave caught in his own trap.
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- Even the devil is beautiful when he is young.
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- Don't cry hurra! till your are over the hedge (till you are out of the wood).
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- Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
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- Better, There he goes, than There he hangs.
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- Beauty is the eye's food but the soul's sorrow.
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- As fortune is sought, so it is found.
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- All wooers are rich, and all captives poor.
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- A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.
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- A proverb never lies, it is only its meaning which deceives.
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- A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
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- A fish should swim thrice: in water, in sauce, and in wine.
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- It is difficult to scare people who think they will profit from dying.
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- In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.
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- If you let the weeds grow for a year you will need seven to clear them.
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- If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.
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- If every one were wise, a fool would be the prize.
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- How easily a hair gets into the butter!
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- He who wants to do a good jump must sometimes take a step back.
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- He who prizes little things, is worthy of great ones.
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- He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
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- He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.
(German Proverb)
- He who has burned his mouth blows his soup.
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- He who dies for the truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave.
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- He that would stop everybody's mouth needs plenty of flour.
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- He that has lost his credit is dead to the world.
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- Great men's servants don't think little of themselves.
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- God cures the sick, and the doctor gets the money.
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- Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.
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- Every one is emperor on his own ground.
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- Even a fool can govern if nothing happens.
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- Don't cry "Hurra!" till you are over the ditch.
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- Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
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- Better to go to bed supperless than run in debt.
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- Beard and cloak do not make one a philosopher.
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- As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
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- All the fruit is not found in just one field.
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- A woman strong in flounces is weak in the head.
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- A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.
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- A lawyer and a wagon wheel must be well greased.
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- A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.
(German Proverb)
- It is dear honey that must be licked off thorns.
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- In the land of the cripple everyone thinks he walks straight.
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- If you heat an empty pot it bursts.
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- If the wolf had stayed in the wood there would have been no hue and cry after him.
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- If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it.
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- Honey is never far away from the sting.
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- He who wants a fire must be able to bear smoke.
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- He who praises in praesentia, and abuses in absentia, have with him pestilentia.
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- He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on.
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- He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail, will soon lose the horse.
(German Proverb)
- He who grasps too much lets much fall.
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- He who cries today that he has no bread will cry again tomorrow because he isn't hungry.
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- He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
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- He that has good legs, has often bad boots.
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- Great cry and little wool, said the fool, when he sheared a pig.
(German Proverb)
- Go to the law for a sheep and lose your cow.
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- Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind.
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- Every one counts for as much as he has.
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- Either fight not with priests or beat them to death.
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- Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.
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- Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.
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