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Quotes by German proverb

  • To change and to change for the better are two different things.
  • Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.
  • No answer is also an answer.
  • It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.
  • Who begins too much accomplishes little.
  • A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
  • One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
  • Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)
  • Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.
  • Never give advice unless asked.
  • Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
  • The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
  • A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
  • When the fox preaches, look to the geese.
  • The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.
  • Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
  • He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
  • God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.
  • Old birds are hard to pluck.
  • Whose bread I eat his song I sing.
  • Charity sees the need not the cause.