Proverbs and old sayings German, page 52

2050 proverbs and old sayings german

Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sky

When the fox preaches, look to your geese.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free.

Proverbs and old sayings German about hell

Who accepts nothing has nothing to return.

Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing

The sun-dial counts only the bright hours.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sun

Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.

Proverbs and old sayings German about kitchen, fire, fire brigade

A baptised Jew is a circumcised Christian.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A donkey in Saxony is a professor in Rome.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The best go first, the bad remain to mend.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad luck, bad

A dream grants what one covets when awake.

Proverbs and old sayings German about dream

Better a good hanging than a bad marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings German about marriage, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Cheating is more honourable than stealing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about cheating, thieves

Cheating is the chapman's cart and plough.

Proverbs and old sayings German about cheating

Fancy requires much, necessity but little.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Work paid for in advance has feet of lead.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

What bird so white as mine? says the crow.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Every cock crows best on his own dunghill.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who serves the people has a bad master.

Proverbs and old sayings German about people, bad luck, bad

Youth and white paper take any impression.

Proverbs and old sayings German about youth