German Proverb Quotes (page 2)

Sayings of German Origin
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“Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s.”
Liberty
“Those that will not hear must be made to feel.”
Persuasion
“What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.”
Strength
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”
Action
“Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.”
Adaptability
“The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.”
Wisdom
“Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.”
Conflict
“Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.”
Laziness
“Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.”
Revenge
“It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.”
Eyes
“What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.”
Influence
“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.”
Mistakes
“Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.”
Luck
“A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.”
Proverbs
“Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.”
Flowers
“Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.”
Ancestry
“A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.”
Mediocrity
“Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.”
Marriage
“To change and change for the better are two different things”
Change
“Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.”
Past
“Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.”
Leaders and Leadership
“He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.”
Teachers and Teaching
“Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.”
Failure
“The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.”
Preachers and Preaching
“In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.”
Life and Living
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
War