German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- As a tree falls, so shall it lie.
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- All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket.
(German Proverb)
- A woman keeps secret only what she does not know.
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- A prince without ears to listen has no head to govern.
(German Proverb)
- A lawyer and a cartwheel must be well greased.
(German Proverb)
- A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.
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- It is better to turn back than go astray.
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- In the evening one may praise the day.
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- If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
(German Proverb)
- If the servant grows rich and the master poor, they are both good for nothing.
(German Proverb)
- If a man would know what he is, let him anger his neighbours.
(German Proverb)
- Honesty makes you rich, but she works slowly.
(German Proverb)
- He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
(German Proverb)
- He who praises himself must have bad neighbours.
(German Proverb)
- He who lies in the grave, is well lodged.
(German Proverb)
- He who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
(German Proverb)
- He who grasps at all, holds nothing fast.
(German Proverb)
- He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.
(German Proverb)
- He that would cheat a Jew, must be a Jew.
(German Proverb)
- He struck at Tib, but down fell Tim.
(German Proverb)
- Got with the fife, spent with the drum.
(German Proverb)
- Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power.
(German Proverb)
- Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
(German Proverb)
- Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth.
(German Proverb)
- Don't let your tongue say what your head may have to pay for.
(German Proverb)
- Doctor Luther's shoes do not fit every parish priest.
(German Proverb)
- Care brings on grey hairs, and age without years.
(German Proverb)
- Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.
(German Proverb)
- Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night.
(German Proverb)
- As a thing is used, so it brightens.
(German Proverb)
- All men are baked in the same clay.
(German Proverb)
- A woman and a stove may not leave the house.
(German Proverb)
- A person has learned much who has learned how to die.
(German Proverb)
- A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right.
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- A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.
(German Proverb)
- Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
(German Proverb)
- Let every one sweep before his own door.
(German Proverb)
- It is more painful to do nothing than something.
(German Proverb)
- Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past.
(German Proverb)
- Lazy men get active when it's time to sleep.
(German Proverb)
- It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest.
(German Proverb)
- Many can pack the cards that cannot play.
(German Proverb)
- Long choosing and cheapening ends in buying nothing, or bad wares.
(German Proverb)
- Lawyers' gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.
(German Proverb)
- It is little honor to the lion to seize the mouse.
(German Proverb)
- Many a one threatens, while he quakes for fear.
(German Proverb)
- Locks and keys are not made for honest fingers.
(German Proverb)
- LA loaded wagon creaks; an empty one rattles.
(German Proverb)
- It is human to err, but diabolical to persevere.
(German Proverb)
- Many a good cow has a bad calf.
(German Proverb)
- Little folks are fond of talking about what great folks do.
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- Keep within compass and you may be sure that you will not suffer what others endure.
(German Proverb)
- It is harder work getting to hell than to heaven.
(German Proverb)
- Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.
(German Proverb)
- Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised.
(German Proverb)
- Keep well with your neighbours, whether right or wrong.
(German Proverb)
- It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief.
(German Proverb)
- Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.
(German Proverb)
- Little and often makes a heap in time.
(German Proverb)
- It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.
(German Proverb)
- It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
(German Proverb)
- Lying is the first step to the gallows.
(German Proverb)
- Like will to like, as the devil said to the coal-burner.
(German Proverb)
- It's not healthy to swallow books without chewing.
(German Proverb)
- It is good to swim near a boat.
(German Proverb)
- Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.
(German Proverb)
- Like blood, like means, and like age, make the happiest marriage.
(German Proverb)
- It's a poor sheep that cannot carry its own wool.
(German Proverb)
- It is good to sleep in a whole skin.
(German Proverb)
- Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
(German Proverb)
- Light is light, though the blind man see it not.
(German Proverb)
- It's a poor mouse that sits on the sack and doesn't gnaw.
(German Proverb)
- It is easy to help him, who is willing to be helped.
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- Loving and singing are not to be forced.
(German Proverb)
- Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.
(German Proverb)
- It's a bad bridge that is narrower than the stream.
(German Proverb)
- It is easier to guard against a bushel of fleas than a woman.
(German Proverb)
- Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.
(German Proverb)
- Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach.
(German Proverb)
- It is too much to expect of a cat that she should sit by the milk and not lap it.
(German Proverb)
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