It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep fire on one.
Proverbs and old sayings German about fire, fire brigade
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Who refuses to submit to justice, must not complain of oppression.
Proverbs and old sayings German about justice
He who has left a rogue behind him, has made a good day's journey.
Proverbs and old sayings German about day, good, good luck
Were he to throw a groat on the roof, it would come down a dollar.
Proverbs and old sayings German
He that pelts every barking dog, must pick up a great many stones.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave, says the hangman to his man.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man, contentment
Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.
Proverbs and old sayings German about age, olderness, death, things, home, house
No one is either rich or poor who has not helped himself to be so.
Proverbs and old sayings German about wealth
If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the skies.
Proverbs and old sayings German about rain
If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, strike hard.
Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment
It's hard to scare a person who thinks he will benefit from dying.
Proverbs and old sayings German about people
The miller's hen and widower's maid, of want need never be afraid.
Proverbs and old sayings German about need
Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box.
Proverbs and old sayings German about soul, wealth
Those who love in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
Proverbs and old sayings German about time, love
The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about students, saints
So it goes in the world: one has the purse, the other has the gold.
Proverbs and old sayings German about world
When misfortune comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
Proverbs and old sayings German about love
Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings German about sadness, drinking, contentment
Whatever is given to the poor, is laid out of the reach of fortune.
Proverbs and old sayings German about wealth
If the bitch were not in haste, she would not litter blind puppies.
Proverbs and old sayings German about blind
