German Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Marriage is the opposite to a fever attack; it begins very hot and ends very cold.
—German Proverb
Topics: Marriage

Better twice remembered than once forgotten.
—German Proverb
Topics: Memory

Ambition and fleas jump high.
—German Proverb
Topics: Ambition

Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
—German Proverb
Topics: Luck

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
—German Proverb
Topics: Character, Loss, Losers, Wisdom, Losing

Work is our business; it’s success is God s.
—German Proverb
Topics: Business

Too much luck is bad luck.
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

One time “here you are” is better than ten times “heaven help you.”
—German Proverb
Topics: Heaven

The belly has no conscience.
—German Proverb
Topics: Conscience

Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men.
—German Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness

With nice appearance people want to be deceived.
—German Proverb
Topics: Appearance

To change and to improve are two different things.
—German Proverb
Topics: Change

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
—German Proverb
Topics: Acceptance, Self-reliance

Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
—German Proverb
Topics: The Past, Past

A close mouth and open eyes never did any one harm.
—German Proverb
Topics: Open-mindedness

Doctors are the signposts to heaven.
—German Proverb
Topics: Heaven

Green Christmas, white Easter.
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs

A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger.
—German Proverb
Topics: Letters, Marriage

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
—German Proverb
Topics: Fate

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.
—German Proverb
Topics: Enemies

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.
—German Proverb
Topics: Failures, Mistakes

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

Friendship is love with intelligence.
—German Proverb
Topics: Friendship

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

The silent dog is the first to bite.
—German Proverb
Topics: Silence

Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.
—German Proverb
Topics: Lawyers, The Body, Conscience

Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
—German Proverb
Topics: Immortality

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.
—German Proverb
Topics: Service

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

To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.
—German Proverb
Topics: Questioning