Proverbs and old sayings, page 994

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Turn yourself into a sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Whoever invented work must not have had anything to do.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

There's no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Hobby horses are more expensive than Arabian stallions.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence.

Proverbs and old sayings German about garden, woman, man

Weapons, women, and locks must be guarded at all times.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who is judge between two friends, loses one of them.

Proverbs and old sayings German about judges

A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.

Proverbs and old sayings German about country

He who travels with hope, has poverty for his coachman.

Proverbs and old sayings German about poverty, hope

It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The heaviest baggage for a traveller is an empty purse.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Were a woman rules the house, the devil is serving-man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rules, devil, home, house, woman, man

After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Where there are too many workmen, there is little work.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

Another man's horse and your own spurs outrun the wind.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

He must have keen eyes that would know a maid at sight.

Proverbs and old sayings German about eyes

As the field, so the crops; as the father, so the sons.

Proverbs and old sayings German

More is to be got from one teacher than from two books.

Proverbs and old sayings German about teachers, books