Proverbs and old sayings German about Contentment, page 5

112 proverbs and old sayings german about contentment

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Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

If you've money, take a seat; it you've none, take to your feet.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Take care of your plough, and your plough will take care of you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

You can eat and drink with your family but not count and measure.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Don't make a mouse of yourself, or else you will be eaten by cats.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave, says the hangman to his man.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, strike hard.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor jest till you shame him.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

What you give, is written in sand; what you take, with an iron hand.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Only believe in the faith of a woman as you would believe in miracles.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Success to you! God speed the craft! as the hangman said to the judge.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

One time here you are is better than ten times heaven help you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

If you let the weeds grow for a year you will need seven to clear them.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Criticism of the state is all right, but don't forget the nation is you.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Tell not all you know; believe not all you hear; do not all you are able.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment