Proverbs and old sayings, page 990

43575 proverbs and old sayings

They must hunger in frost who will not work in heat.

Proverbs and old sayings German about hunger, work

What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word, nothing, good, good luck

Except for the night, we could never know the stars.

Proverbs and old sayings German about celebrity, stars, night

The biggest fools are those who are paid to be wise.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Time chases love away and love chases the time away.

Proverbs and old sayings German about time, love

When the sow is satisfied she throws the trough away.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness

'Tis one beggar's woe, to see another by the door go.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fairy tales

Of words and feathers, it takes many to make a pound.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There is no saint so petty but claims his own candle.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints

Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Vice often rides triumphantly in the coach of virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings German about vice, virtue

The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold.

Proverbs and old sayings German about beginning, end

If you can't get it in bushels, take it in spoonfuls.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

He who prizes little things, is worthy of great ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about things

Ever one hair, only one, and the man is bald at last.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

He who has lost his freedom has nothing else to lose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

Who avoids small sins, does not fall into great ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sin, fall