Proverbs and old sayings German, page 50

2050 proverbs and old sayings german

When the fox preaches, look to the geese.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Better play at small game than stand out.

Proverbs and old sayings German about games

He who lies in the grave, is well lodged.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Necessity teaches even the lame to dance.

Proverbs and old sayings German about dance

Where there's no love, there's no honour.

Proverbs and old sayings German about honour, love

Slaughter no more than you can well salt.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Better an empty purse than an empty head.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads

There the hedge is lowest, men leap over.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

A woman and a glass are always in danger.

Proverbs and old sayings German about danger, woman

Never tickle the nose of a sleeping bear.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You cannot hang a man for what he thinks.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

To criticize is easy, to do is difficult.

Proverbs and old sayings German

They need much whom nothing will content.

Proverbs and old sayings German about need, nothing

The husband's mother is the wife's devil.

Proverbs and old sayings German about husband, wife, mother, devil

He who gives, must take (meaning a joke).

Proverbs and old sayings German about joke

Poor people's words go many to a sackful.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word, people

No pride like that of an enriched beggar.

Proverbs and old sayings German about proudness

Where might is right, right is not might.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness

You cannot make a sieve of an ass's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The fuller the cask, the duller its sound.

Proverbs and old sayings German