Proverbs and old sayings German, page 89

2050 proverbs and old sayings german

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?

Proverbs and old sayings German about use, rightness

A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger.

Proverbs and old sayings German about marriage

With patience and time the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverbs and old sayings German about salary, patience, time

Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads, world, man

Drinking a little too much is drinking a great deal too much.

Proverbs and old sayings German about drinking

One cannot keep peace longer than his neighbour will let him.

Proverbs and old sayings German about peace

The older, the colder; the more avaricious, the more vicious.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bitter, things

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rules, blind

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

Proverbs and old sayings German about children

An egg is an egg, said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.

Proverbs and old sayings German

To change and change for the better are two different things.

Proverbs and old sayings German about change, things

One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about marriage

Revenge of an hundred years old hath still its sucking teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about revenge, old, olderness

On Saint Thomas the Divine kill all turkeys, geese and swine.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints

If a man would know what he is, let him anger his neighbours.

Proverbs and old sayings German about anger, man

He who inherits a farthing, is expected to disburse a dollar.

Proverbs and old sayings German

In the land of the cripple everyone thinks he walks straight.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Don't let your tongue say what your head may have to pay for.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads

Make yourself an ass, and every one will lay his sack on you.

Proverbs and old sayings German