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| German Proverb - T
'Tis easier to hurt than heal.'Tis hard to swim against the stream.'Tis the mind ennobles, not the blood.'Tis too late to spare when the pocket is bare.'Tis written, "What's not your own, that let alone."Take a horse to the knacker, and throw in bridle and saddle.Take all you want; eat all you take.Take care of your plough, and your plough will take care of you.Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.Talk of the devil, and his imp appears.Talking is easier than doing, and promising than performing.Talking is silver, silence is gold.Tell a lie, and you'll hear the truth.That is not in the looking-glass which is seen in the looking-glass.That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth.That usury is a sin some hold, but take for granted they've no gold.The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.The anvil is used to noise.The ass and his driver do not think alike.The ass carries corn to the mill, and gets thistles.The bailiff's cow and another's cow are two different cows.The beggar's bag is bottomless.The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold.The belly is a bad adviser.The best answer to anger is silence.The best friends are in one's purse.The best is what one has in his hand.The best of the mill is that the sacks can't speak.The bites of priests and wolves are hard to heal.The cats that drive away mice are as food as those that catch them.The chamois climbs high and yet is caught.The cock is a lord on his own dunghill.The cock is king on his own dunghill.The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he knows it by heart.The concealer is as bad as the thief.The cow gives milk through her mouth.The cow licks no strange calf.The cows that low most give the least milk.The debts go to the next heir.The devil catches most souls in a golden net.The devil is civil when he is flattered.The devil is in the details.The devil is never so black as he is painted.The devil likes to souse what is already wet.The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail.The dog rages at the stone, not at him that throws it.The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it.The dogs bite the last.The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets.The egg will be more knowing than the hen.The empty waggon must make room for the full one.The end of wrath is the beginning of repentance.The executioner is a keen shaver.The eye is bigger than the belly.The eye is never satiated with seeing.The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.The fairer the hostess, the heavier the reckoning.The farthest way about is the nearest way home.The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.The fault of another is a good teacher.The fewer the words, the better the prayer.The fish lead a pleasant life, they drink when they like.The fuller the cask, the duller its sound.The greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself.The greatest step is out of doors.The handsomest snuffs the candle.The hasty man was never a traitor.The husband's mother is the wife's devil.The key that is used grows bright.The king cannot rule as he wishes.The king's chaff is better than other folk's corn.The last shuts the door.The last stole the sack.The later the evening, the fairer the company.The laugh is always on the loser.The middle path is the safe path.The miller's hen and widower's maid, of want need never be afraid.The more law, the less justice.The more laws the less justice.The more the well is used, the more water it yields.The more you stir the mire, the more it stinks.The most disorderly students make the most pious preachers.The narrower the cage, the sweeter the liberty.The nearer the inn, the longer the road.The nearest the dearest.The people's voice is God's voice.The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it gets broken at last.The poor must dance as the rich pipe.The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.The repeated stroke will fell the oak.The unbidden guest is ever a pest.The unrighteous penny consumes the righteous dollar.The weeping bride makes a laughing wife.There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.There are more hands than heads.There are more old tipplers than old doctors.There are more threatened than struck.There are only two good women in the world; the one is dead, the other not to be found.There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs.There is nothing so bad but may be of some use.There the hedge is lowest, men leap over.There's cunning in a pointed chin.There's no making apples of plums.There's no putting off a lie upon the belly.Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.Those who don't pick roses in summer won't pick them in winter either.Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please.Though you seat the frog on a golden stool, he'll soon jump off again into the pool.Timid dogs bark most.Tired oxen must tread hard.To cover the well after the child has been drowned in it.To get out of the rain under the spout.To look for a needle in a bottle of hay.To save at the spiggot, and let it run out at the bong-hole.To sink a well by the river side.To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.To steal the leather, and give away the shoes for God's sake.To the looker-on no work is too hard.Too many sacks are the death of the ass.Too much bursts the bag.Too much humility is pride.Too much is not enough.Too much luck is bad luck.Too much will soon break.Too much wisdom is folly.Trick against trick.Trueman's house stands the longest.Trust no one till you have eaten a bushel of salt with him.Trust well rides away with the horse.Trust, beware whom!Trust, but not too much.Truth creeps not into corners.Truth finds no asylum.Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about.Truth ill-timed is as bad as a lie.Truth makes the tongue smart.Truth should not always be revealed. |
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