German Proverbs - page 71

They who eat cherries with the great, are like to have the stones and stalks flung in their face. (German Proverb)
Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair. View proverb
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Time and opportunity are in no man's sleeve. View proverb
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Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it. View proverb
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. View proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. View proverb
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Too much bursts the bag. View proverb
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We knock in jest, and it is opened in earnest. View proverb
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We know what we have, but not what we shall get. View proverb
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We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows. View proverb
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What is not taken by the Church is taken by the Exchequer. (German Proverb)
What is right for the one is reasonable for the other. View proverb
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What you lend to a friend, an enemy sues for. View proverb
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What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts. View proverb
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When blind leads the blind, both fall into the ditch. View proverb
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When David grew old he sang pious psalms. View proverb
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When sorrow is asleep wake it not. View proverb
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When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail. View proverb
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When the guest is in most favor, he will do well to quit. View proverb
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When the hen had laid an egg she cackles. View proverb
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When the thief is seen [stealing], he says he is joking; but when the thief is not seen, he steals. (German Proverb)
Where all adulterers to wear grey coats, the cloth would be dear. View proverb
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Where everyone goes, the grass never grows. View proverb
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Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving. View proverb
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Where there no fools, there would be no wise men. View proverb
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