German Sayings & Proverbs

German Sayings & Proverbs

• A bade thing that does no harm is the same as a good one that does no good.
  – Germany
• A single penny fairly got is worth a thousand that are not.
  – German
• A sponge sucks itself full, but when it has to yield anything one has to squeeze it.
  – Germany
• At a round table, every seat is first.
  – Germany
• Before God and the bus driver we are all equal.
  – Germany
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<li>“Better an honest enemy than a false friend”
– German Proverb</li>
<li>Better ask twice than go wrong once.
– German Proverb</li>
<li>Both legs in the stocks or only one is all the same.
– German Proverb</li>
<li>Better silent than stupid.
– German</li>
<li>Black cows give white milk.
– Germany</li>
<li>Every work revenges itself on its master.
– Germany
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• For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows.
  – Germany
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<li>God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
– German Proverb
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<li>Health is rightly appreciated only when we are sick.
—German Proverb.
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<li>He that is well does not know how rich he is.
Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.
—German Proverb.
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<li>Invalids live longest.
– German
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• It is better to turn back than to go astray.
  —From the German.
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<li>Let everyone sweep before their own door.
– Germany
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<li>Let every pedlar carry his own pack.
– Germany
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• Love takes away the sight and matrimony restores it.
  – Germany
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<li>Lovers have much to relate – but it is always the same thing.
– German Proverb</li>
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Many speak a word which if it were a florin they would put back in their purse.
– Germany
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Never give advice unless asked.
– German Proverb</li>
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No one knows the weight of another’s burden.
—German.
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<li>No tree falls on the first stroke.
– Germany
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• Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas.
  – Germany
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<li>No one can blow and swallow at the same time.
– German Proverb
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• Old bird are hard to pluck.
  – German
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<li>One bird in the dish is better than a hundred in the air.
– Germany
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• One rotten egg spoils the whole pudding.
  – German Proverb
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  Promise is a bridge of words, unsafe to walk across.
  – Germany
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<li>The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
– Germany</li>
<li>Those who have only one bow should be content with one fiddle.
– Germany</li>
<li>Truth is the daughter of time.
– Germany</li>
<li>Two things make one either greater or smaller, praise and shadows.
– German Proverb</li>
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When the fox preaches, look to your geese.
– German

• When wealth is lost, nothing is lost, when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
  – German
• What greater crime than loss of time.
  – Germany
• Where everyone goes, the grass never grows.
  Germany
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  Without a friend the world is but a wilderness.
  —German.