Proverbs and old sayings, page 1011

43575 proverbs and old sayings

For a lot of people their conscience lives in the middle of the street.

Proverbs and old sayings German about conscience, people

One time here you are is better than ten times heaven help you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about help, time, contentment

If I cannot move the powers above, Acheron itself shall be appealed to.

Proverbs and old sayings German

If you let the weeds grow for a year you will need seven to clear them.

Proverbs and old sayings German about need, contentment

It is not till the cow has lost her tail, that she discovers its value.

Proverbs and old sayings German about value

The world likes to have night-owls, that it may have matter for wonder.

Proverbs and old sayings German about miracle, night, world

However long the sun shines upon a thistle, it will never become a rose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sun

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wine, life

Who neither believes heaven or hell, the devil heartily wishes him well.

Proverbs and old sayings German about hell, devil

Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another's nightingale.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Nothing looks more like a man of sense than a fool who holds his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings German about common sense, sense, nothing, man

Criticism of the state is all right, but don't forget the nation is you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about criticism, state, nation, rightness, contentment

All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket.

Proverbs and old sayings German about angels

No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house

A foreign language is more easily learned in the kitchen than at school.

Proverbs and old sayings German about school, language, kitchen

Who deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me.

Proverbs and old sayings German about shame

Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man, contentment

All freight lightens, said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wife

Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat; drink upon eggs costs him two.

Proverbs and old sayings German about drinking