1303 sayings with source references.
Wer reich werden will, muß seine Seele eine Zeit lang hinter die Kiste werfen.Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHunde, die viel bellen, beißen nicht.Dogs that bark much don’t bite.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEiner kann reden und Sieben können singen.One can speak and seven can sing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVon einem Funken kommt ein großes Feuer.A little spark kindles a great fire.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNichts thun lehrt Uebel thun.Doing nothing teaches doing ill.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAuch ein Haar hat seinen Schatten.Even a hair casts its shadow.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJedermann sagt es, Niemand weiß es.Everybody says it, nobody knows it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEin Blinder schluckt manche Fliege mit herunter.A blind man swallows many a fly.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBesser allein, als in schlechter Gesellschaft.Better alone than in bad company.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLaß die Leute reden und die Hunde bellen.Let people talk and dogs bark.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMancher sieht mit einem Auge mehr als ein Anderer mit zweien.Many see more with one eye than others with two.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRathen ist oft besser denn fechten.Advising is often better than fighting.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesKein Panzer hilft wider den Galgen.No armour is proof against the gallows.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDer Mönch antwortet, wie der Abt singt.The monk responds as the abbot chants.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesWo Scham ist, ist Tugend.Where there is shame, there is virtue.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesKeines Mannes Herr, keines Herrn Mann.No man’s master, no master’s man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesWer ekel ist, entbehrt manchen guten Bissen.Who is over nice, loses many a slice.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAuf einen guten Bissen gehört ein guter Trunk.To good eating belongs good drinking.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesWas drei wissen, erfahren bald dreißig.What three know will soon be known to thirty.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesZeit, Ebbe und Fluth, warten auf Niemand.Time and tide wait for no man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesZeit, Wind, Frauen und Glück, verändern sich all’ Augenblick.Time, wind, women, and fortune, are ever changing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione tedesca · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTrunken klug, nüchtern närrisch.The wise drunkard is a sober fool.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIch habe den Hund lieber zum Freund als zum Feind.I would rather have a dog my friend than enemy.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEs findet jeder seinen Meister.Every one has his master.
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