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There are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He that sits among reeds, cuts pipes when he pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings German

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about error, truth, old, olderness

Misfortune, wood, and hair, grow throughout the year.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Doctor Luther's shoes do not fit every parish priest.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who listens to a proposition is already half sold.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, god

A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings German about woman

Where God gives hard bread He also gives sharp teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings German about god

When God says today, the devil says tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, god

Who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wish

When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall.

Proverbs and old sayings German about peasantry

Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it.

Proverbs and old sayings German about time

There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.

Proverbs and old sayings German

'Tis written, What's not your own, that let alone.

Proverbs and old sayings German

One take this is better than ten God help you!

Proverbs and old sayings German about help, god, contentment

People talk about something until it actually happens.

Proverbs and old sayings German about people

A prince without ears to listen has no head to govern.

Proverbs and old sayings German about heads

Who has a mouth, let him not say to another, Blow!

Proverbs and old sayings German

What is right for the one is reasonable for the other.

Proverbs and old sayings German about rightness