German Proverb
58 quotations
To advise is not to compel.
To advise is easier than to help.
Never give advice unless asked.
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
No answer is also an answer.
Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.
Forever is a long bargain.
It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Too much humility is pride.
What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.
In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s.
The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
Prudent men woo thrifty women.