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What signifies the barking of a dog that don't bite?

Proverbs and old sayings German

Either fight not with priests or beat them to death.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fight, death

When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.

Proverbs and old sayings German about games

God gives us nuts but he does not crack them for us.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

The ass carries corn to the mill, and gets thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings German

To change and to do better are two different things.

Proverbs and old sayings German about change, things

One may see through a wall, if there's a hole in it.

Proverbs and old sayings German

They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.

Proverbs and old sayings German about spring, hunger, time

They must hunger in frost who will not work in heat.

Proverbs and old sayings German about hunger, work

What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word, nothing, good, good luck

Except for the night, we could never know the stars.

Proverbs and old sayings German about celebrity, stars, night

The biggest fools are those who are paid to be wise.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Time chases love away and love chases the time away.

Proverbs and old sayings German about time, love

When the sow is satisfied she throws the trough away.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness

'Tis one beggar's woe, to see another by the door go.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fairy tales

Of words and feathers, it takes many to make a pound.

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There is no saint so petty but claims his own candle.

Proverbs and old sayings German about saints