When there is no enemy it is safe to fight.
—German Proverb
Topics: Fighting, Enemies
The more laws, the less justice.
—German Proverb
Topics: Justice, Laws
If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it.
—German Proverb
Topics: Luck, Sleeping
In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Advising often better than fighting.
—German Proverb
Topics: Fighting
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.
—German Proverb
Topics: Luck
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
—German Proverb
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
Friendship is a plant we must often water.
—German Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Prudent men woo thrifty women.
—German Proverb
Topics: Men
Forever is a long bargain.
—German Proverb
Topics: Time, Eternity
Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
—German Proverb
Topics: Persuasion
The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long.
—German Proverb
Topics: Joy
They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.
—German Proverb
Topics: Flying
He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Anger
Where you are not—there is happiness.
—German Proverb
Topics: Happiness
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
—German Proverb
Topics: Ancestors, Ancestry, Family
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
—German Proverb
Topics: Promises
Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.
—German Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.
—German Proverb
Topics: Age
A good soldier has only three things to think about; the king, God, and nothing.
—German Proverb
Topics: Kings
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Charity, Helping
Never tickle the nose of a sleeping bear.
—German Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Such a beginning, such an end.
—German Proverb
Topics: Beginning
A bad beginning may make a good ending.
—German Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Rejoiced in youth, repented in age.
—German Proverb
Topics: Youth, Age
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
Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
—German Proverb
Topics: One liners, Procrastination
He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily.
—German Proverb
Enough is better than too much.
—German Proverb
Topics: Satisfaction
The old forget, the young don’t know
—German Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Better a good conscience without wisdom than wisdom without a good conscience.
—German Proverb
Topics: Conscience
Office without pay makes thieves.
—German Proverb
Topics: Government
Cunning surpasses strength.
—German Proverb
Topics: Strength
To change and to improve are two different things.
—German Proverb
Topics: Change
The best answer to anger is silence.
—German Proverb
Topics: Silence, Anger
Advising is easier than helping.
—German Proverb
Topics: Helping, Proverbs
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
—German Proverb
Topics: War
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.
—German Proverb
Topics: Bad Times