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Ragged colts make the handsomest stallions.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Beard and cloak do not make one a philosopher.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The empty waggon must make room for the full one.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There's seldom a cake but there's more of the make.

Proverbs and old sayings German

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

Proverbs and old sayings German about word

Who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wish

A hundred years of wrong do not make an hour of right.

Proverbs and old sayings German about bad, rightness

Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The most disorderly students make the most pious preachers.

Proverbs and old sayings German about students, saints

He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily.

Proverbs and old sayings German

There is no nail varnish that can make old hands look younger.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

The mountains make the mist and the valleys must consume them.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Promises may make friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Like blood, like means, and like age, make the happiest marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings German about marriage, blood, age, olderness

Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about ancestors

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

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small and the wants great.

Proverbs and old sayings German about lie, games, wealth, wine

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

Proverbs and old sayings German about water

You make a new arrow by comparing it to an old one.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about old, olderness, contentment