Proverbs and old sayings, page 1004

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Many who build castles in the air cannot build a hut on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about air, earth

Look before you leap, For snakes among sweet flowers do creep.

Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers, contentment

Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings German about drinking, death

He who always thinks it is too soon, is sure to come too late.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, good luck

What Manchester says today, the rest of England says tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rest

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who has one foot in a brothel, has the other in a hospital.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Who throws a stone above him may have it fall on his own head.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fall, heads

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings German about children, mother, heart

He who sleeps along keeps long cold, two soon warm each other.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The mountains make the mist and the valleys must consume them.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail, will soon lose the horse.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When friendship goes with love it must play the second fiddle.

Proverbs and old sayings German about friendship, love

Priests and road signs show you the way but don't go with you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about astrology, contentment

The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

Woman's beauty, the forest echo, and rainbows, soon pass away.

Proverbs and old sayings German about beauty, woman

One fool may ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil