To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing.
Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness
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2050 proverbs and old sayings german
He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin.
Proverbs and old sayings German about mother
Don't learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal.
Proverbs and old sayings German
He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.
Proverbs and old sayings German about end
A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the roof.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Once is people's mouths, 'tis hard to get well out of them.
Proverbs and old sayings German about people
Asses sing badly, because they pitch their voices too high.
Proverbs and old sayings German
The bailiff's cow and another's cow are two different cows.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
Proverbs and old sayings German about ancestors
He that would stop everybody's mouth needs plenty of flour.
Proverbs and old sayings German
A fish should swim thrice: in water, in sauce, and in wine.
Proverbs and old sayings German about wine, fishing, water
If you would have the lamp burn, you must pour oil into it.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Everybody knows good counsel except him who has need of it.
Proverbs and old sayings German about moral, need, good, good luck
Affectation is a greater injury to the face than small-pox.
Proverbs and old sayings German about face
Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
Proverbs and old sayings German about wife
Buy your neighbour's ox, and woo your neighbour's daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce
Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.
Proverbs and old sayings German about charity, wealth
Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of every devil.
Proverbs and old sayings German about crime, criminals, devil
No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings German about nature, eyes
