Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
—German Proverb
Topics: Courage, Success
Such a beginning, such an end.
—German Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Poverty is the sixth sense.
—German Proverb
Topics: Poverty
Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach
—German Proverb
Topics: Diet
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Sorrow
What grows makes no noise.
—German Proverb
For a lot of people their conscience lives in the middle of the street.
—German Proverb
Topics: Conscience
A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer book.
—German Proverb
Topics: Book
Better twice remembered than once forgotten.
—German Proverb
Topics: Memory
A good name is a second inheritance.
—German Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
The more laws, the less justice.
—German Proverb
Topics: Justice, Laws
One time “here you are” is better than ten times “heaven help you.”
—German Proverb
Topics: Heaven
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
—German Proverb
Topics: Failure, Proverbs, Adversity, Difficulties, Bitterness
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
—German Proverb
Topics: Resilience, Patience
Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.
—German Proverb
Topics: Age
Enough is better than too much.
—German Proverb
Topics: Satisfaction
Necessity teaches all things
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Necessity
The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.
—German Proverb
Topics: Preaching, Evangelism
Nothing in this world is permanent.
—German Proverb
Topics: Change
Rejoiced in youth, repented in age.
—German Proverb
Topics: Youth, Age
He who does not open his eyes must open his purse.
—German Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
—German Proverb
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
—German Proverb
Topics: Action, Humankind
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
—German Proverb
Topics: Fear
The old forget, the young don’t know
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Rent and taxes never sleep.
—German Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
A bad beginning may make a good ending.
—German Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Too much luck is bad luck
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it.
—German Proverb
Topics: Sleeping, Luck
Office without pay makes thieves.
—German Proverb
Topics: Government
A man is seldom better than his conversation.
—German Proverb
Buying is cheaper than asking.
—German Proverb
Topics: Negotiation, Business
Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power.
—German Proverb
Topics: Part of The Whole
Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
—German Proverb
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
True friendship does not freeze in the winter.
—German Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Wealth lost – something lost; Honor lost – much lost; Courage lost – all lost.
—German Proverb
Topics: Courage
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
—German Proverb
Topics: Promises
In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm.
—German Proverb
Topics: Open-mindedness
Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
—German Proverb
Topics: Performance, Effort