When the thief is seen stealing, he says he is joking; but when the thief is not seen, he steals.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves
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They who eat cherries with the great, are like to have the stones and stalks flung in their face.
Proverbs and old sayings German about face
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.
Proverbs and old sayings German about happiness
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Proverbs and old sayings German
You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Proverbs and old sayings German about life
He who is born to misfortunate stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on his back will fracture his nose.
Proverbs and old sayings German about fall
O what we must suffer for the sake of God's church! said the abbot, when the roast fowl burned his fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about suffering, god
A tear bedews my Delia's eye, From morn till dewy eve; But if you ask the reason why, She can't tell, I believe.
Proverbs and old sayings German about reason
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost..
Proverbs and old sayings German about character, wealth, nothing
Saint Martin was an easy man, he loved to drink Cerevisiam; and when he'd no Pecuniam, he left in pledge his Tunicam.
Proverbs and old sayings German about saints, drinking, man
A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man
One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.
Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce
Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, for forty days it will remain; Saint Swithun's day, if thou bring rain, for forty days it will remain.
Proverbs and old sayings German about day, saints, rain
Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth; learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings German about nothing
There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with spurs.
Proverbs and old sayings German about pray, nothing, god
Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the...
Proverbs and old sayings German about christians, commerce, earth, people
