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| German Proverb - A
"All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard."An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg."Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.A bad beginning may make a good ending.A bad cause requires many words.A bad penny always comes back.A baptised Jew is a circumcised Christian.A bargain is a bargain.A bashful dog never fattens.A better seldom comes after.A blind horse goes straightforward.A blind man swallows many a fly.A bold does not always fall when it thunders.A bold onset is half the battle.A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land.A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm.A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.A dainty stomach beggars the purse.A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.A fence makes love more keen.A fish should swim thrice: in water, in sauce, and in wine.A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.A glutton young, a beggar old.A golden hammer breaks an iron gate.A good conscience is a soft pillow.A good meal is worth hanging for.A good name is a rich inheritance.A good speaker makes a good liar.A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins.A gosling flew over the Rhine, and came home a goose.A handful of might is better than a sack full of right.A huckster who cannot pass off mouse-turd for pepper, has not learned his trade.A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt.A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right.A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased.A lawyer and a wagon-wheel must be well greased.A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.A light belly, heavy heart.A load of March dust is worth a ducat.A loaded wagon creaks; an empty one rattles.A lordly taste make a beggar's purse.A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge.A man has learned much who has learned how to die.A man has two ears and one mouth that he hear much and speak little.A man shows his character by what he laughs at.A man warned is half saved.A man's face is a lion's.A man, a word; a word, a man.A millstone gathers no moss.A mistake is no fraud.A monk in his cloister, a fish in the water, a thief in the gallows.A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.A necessary lie is harmless.A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.A penny saved is a penny gained.A penny saved is two-pence got.A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.A promise is a debt.A proverb never lies, it is only its meaning which deceives.A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a woman.A single penny fairly got, is worth a thousand that are not.A single stroke don't fell the oak.A small gift is better than a great promise.A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof.A teacher is better than two books.A thief seldom grows rich by thieving.A thing is not bad if well understood.A used plough shines, standing water stinks.A wall between increases love.A wise man, a strong man.A woman keeps secret only what she does not know.A woman strong in flounces is weak in the head.A woman's vengeance knows no bounds.A young doctor means a new graveyard.A young wife is an old man's post-horse to the grave.Abroad one has a hundred eyes, at home not one.Abundance begets indifference.Adam must have an Eve, to blame for his own faults.Advice is not compulsion.Advice should precede the act.Advising is easier than helping.Advising is often better than fighting.After Christmas comes Lent.After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile.Agree, for the law is costly.All are not asleep who have their eyes shut.All are not cooks who carry long knives.All are not free who mock their chains.All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket.All wooers are rich, and all captives poor.Almost never killed a fly.Always something new, seldom something good.Ambition and fleas both jump high.An old broom knows the corners of the house.An old error is always more popular than a new truth.An old fox does not run twice into the snare.An old man loved is a winter with flowers.An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of school-wit.An uneducated person is like an unpolished mirror.Anger can't stand, without a strong hand.Anger hears no counsel.Anger without power is folly.Another man's horse and your own spurs outrun the wind.Apes remain apes, though you cloth them in velvet.Appearances are deceitful.April weather, woman's love, rose-leaves, dice, and card-luck, change every moment.Art holds fast when all else is lost.As a man eats, so he works.As a thing is used, so it brightens.As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.As fortune is sought, so it is found.As princes fiddle, subjects must dance.As soon a man is born he begins to die.As soon as man is born he begins to die.As the field, so the crops; as the father, so the sons.As the labour, so the pay.As the master, so the work.As the mistress, so the maid.As the old birds sings, the young ones twitter.As the tree, so the fruit.As the tree, so the fruit; as the mistress, so the maid.As won, so spent.Assertion is no proof.Asses sing badly, because they pitch their voices too high.At court there are many hands, but few hearts.At evening the sluggard is busy.Away from the battle all are soldiers. |
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