German Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
—German Proverb
Topics: Marriage

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
—German Proverb
Topics: Promises

Drunk sweetly, paid sourly.
—German Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
—German Proverb
Topics: Success, Courage

A good name is a second inheritance.
—German Proverb
Topics: Inheritance

Happiness opens the arms and closes the eyes.
—German Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Eyes

Liberty is God’s gift, liberties the devil s.
—German Proverb
Topics: Liberty

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
—German Proverb
Topics: One liners, Procrastination

When in prayer you clasp your hands, God opens His.
—German Proverb

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.
—German Proverb
Topics: Charity

If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it.
—German Proverb
Topics: Sleeping, Luck

He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
—German Proverb
Topics: Teachers, Teaching

Avarice hoards itself poor, charity gives itself rich.
—German Proverb
Topics: Service, Giving, Kindness

Speech is silvern, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.
—German Proverb

Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
—German Proverb
Topics: Experience

Rent and taxes never sleep.
—German Proverb
Topics: Sleeping

He who sleeps in a silver bed has golden dreams.
—German Proverb
Topics: Sleeping

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Jealousy, Envy

He who lends to the poor get his interest from God.
—German Proverb

A bad beginning may make a good ending.
—German Proverb
Topics: Beginning

To get to know a friend, you must share an inheritance with him.
—German Proverb
Topics: Inheritance

He who has no shoes dances in his socks.
—German Proverb
Topics: Dance

Cunning surpasses strength.
—German Proverb
Topics: Strength

They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.
—German Proverb
Topics: Flying

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
—German Proverb
Topics: Patience, Resilience

God forgives sinners, otherwise His heaven would be empty.
—German Proverb
Topics: Heaven, Forgiveness

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
—German Proverb
Topics: Leaders, Leadership

Better a good hanging than a bad marriage.
—German Proverb
Topics: Marriage

The morning has gold in its mouth.
—German Proverb

What grows makes no noise.
—German Proverb