German Proverbs (2067 Proverbs)
- Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.
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- Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach.
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- It is too much to expect of a cat that she should sit by the milk and not lap it.
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- It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep fire on one.
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- Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
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- Let the guest go before the storm bursts.
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- It is not want but abundance that makes avarice.
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- It is easier to blame than do better.
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- Love without return is like a question without an answer.
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- Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar.
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- It is not till the cow has lost her tail, that she discovers its value.
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- Love can turn a cottage into a golden palace.
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- Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.
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- It is not good to be the poet of a village.
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- Priests and road signs show you the way but don't go with you.
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- Only when the horses have escaped do men repair the stable.
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- One kisses the nurse for the sake of the child.
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- One "take this" is better than ten "God help you!"
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- Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.
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- No one is wise enough to advice himself.
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- Never tickle the nose of a sleeping bear.
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- Most people like short prayers and long sausages.
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- Many have good intentions, but something comes across them.
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- Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat.
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- Only believe in the faith of a woman as you would believe in miracles.
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- One kisses the child for the mother's sake, and the mother for the child's sake.
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- Once is people's mouths, 'tis hard to get well out of them.
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- Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
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- No one is unhappier than the one who believes in happiness.
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- Never murder a man who is about to commit suicide.
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- More people drown in glasses than in rivers.
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- Many go out for wool, and come home shorn.
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- Pray as though no work could help, and work as though no prayer could help.
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- One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.
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- One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.
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- On the day of victory no fatigue is felt.
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- Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas.
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- No one is happier than he who believes in his happiness.
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- Never listen to these three advisers: wine, the night, and love.
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- More is done with words than with hands.
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- Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.
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- Poverty is cunning; it catches even a fox.
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- One time "here you are" is better than ten times "heaven help you."
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- One has only to die to be praised.
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- On Saint Thomas, the Divine kill all turkeys, geese and swine.
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- Nothing looks more like a man of sense than a fool who holds his tongue.
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- No one is either rich or poor who has not helped himself to be so.
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- Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool.
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- More belongs to riding than a pair of boots.
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- Poor people's words go many to a sackful.
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- One story is good till another is told.
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- One half the world laughs at the other half.
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- On poor people's beards the young barber learns his trade.
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- Nothing is so new as what has long been forgotten.
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- No one can do nothing, and no one can do everything.
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- Never fight an enemy whilst it is possible to cheat him.
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- More are drowned in the bowl than in the sea.
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- Poor or rich, death makes us all equal.
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- One should be born either a king or a fool.
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- One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
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- Old pottage is sooner heated than new made.
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- Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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- No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.
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- Never fell oak at the very first stroke.
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- Monks, mice, rats, vermin, seldom sunder without harming.
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- Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor jest till you shame him.
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- One rotten sheepe will marre a whole flocke.
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- One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope.
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- Old age is a disease that you die from.
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- Nothing bolder than the miller's shirt, that every morning collars a thief.
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- No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck.
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- Neutrals are soused from above, and singed from below.
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- Misfortune, wood, and hair, grow throughout the year.
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- Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.
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- One must plough with the horses he has.
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- One foe is too many, and a hundred friends are too few.
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- Offend one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome.
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- Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double.
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- No one can blow and swallow at the same time.
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- Neighbour once over the hedge, neighbour over it again.
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