- He who sleeps does not sin.
- The liar will only be trusted once.
- Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- Do not cross the brook for water.
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- To lazy pigs the ground is always frozen.
- The closer to the source, the clearer the water.
- One cannot both eat one’s cookie and keep it.
- It is easy to cut broad strips off other people’s leather.
- Morning hour has gold in its mouth.
- Don’t buy the pig in the bag.
- New brooms sweep the best.
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- Rather an honest ‘no’ than an insincere ‘yes’.
- Away is good but home is best.
- It is darkest before dawn.
- When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
- Old is oldest.
- Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.
- Best to learn from other people’s injury.
- Forbidden road is often heavily worn.
- Opportunity makes the thief.
- A journey of a thousand miles always begins with a single step.
- The way the devil reads the bible.
- Weeds last the season.
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- As you shout you get will be answered.
- Such father, such son.
- Sin punishes itself.
- Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.
- Don’t celebrate until you have crossed the creek.
- As the master sleeps, the servant dreams.
- Money cannot buy happiness.
- Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- An ounce of lying saves tons of explanations.
- Better listen to a broken string than never having bent a bow.
- Devils have more than twelve apostles.
- From children, drunkards and madmen you get to hear the truth.
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- Don’t shoot yourself in the foot.
- That day, that sorrow.
- A good man manages on his own.
- Warned is armed.
- The smith’s horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod.
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- Each person is the forger of his own happiness.
- Don’t think about the pig until it’s in the poke.
- No one is a prophet in one’s own homeland.
- To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Constant sunshine makes a desert.
- As old people sing, young people tweet.
- There must be some moderation.
- Each thing has its time.
- What starts with a needle usually ends with a silver bowl.
- When the devil grows old he turns religious.
- He who whispers lies.
- Give a servant a proper meal and the cow will give more milk and the cat will drink less.
- Self is the best farmhand.
- Lend to God and the earth – they both pay good interest.
- Practice gives skill.
- Envy never rests.
- What is unclearly said is unclearly thought.
- Alone is strong.
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Hunger is the best flavouring.
- It is never too late.
- Old love never rusts.
- Better breadless than clueless.
- No one is indispensable.
- What you lose at the swings you take back at the merry-go-round.
- What is hidden in snow is revealed at thaw.
- To separate is to die a little.
- Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.
- Whichever way you turn you have your end in the back.
- He who waits for something good never waits too long.
- Health is quietly keeping silent .
- Close does not shoot any hares.
- It is better to free someone guilty than to convict someone innocent.
- Clothing makes the man.
- Best to be without oaths.
- The death of one, the bread of the other.
- Don’t put stones on a burden.
- It is not one person’s fault if two people quarrel.
- If you say ‘A’ you have to say ‘B’.
- Taste is like the buttocks, divided.
- The stomach gets full before the eye.
- No party without shattering.
- God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
- One time, no time – two times, a habit.
- Burnt child shuns fire.
- The later in the evening, the more beautiful the people.
- Small pots have ears too.
- He who lives shall see.
- A place for each thing and each thing in its place
- Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
- What one’s head lacks one has to have in one’s legs.
- A poor craftsman blames his tools.
- Poor memory is better than bad memories.
- It is fairer to listen to the string that broke than to never strain a bow.
- Choose your bedfellows by day.
- Revenge is sweet.
- Even a blind hen can find a grain.
- The grass is always greener on the other side.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns.
- Laid card lies.
- Hope is the last thing to leave a human being.
- Ingratitude is the world’s reward.
- One learns from mistakes.
- Where there is modesty there is virtue.
- The drunken man’s words is the sober man’s thoughts.
- Insight is more valuable than gold.
- The strongest among the disabled is the one who never forgets his disability.
- Don’t light a fire for the crows.
- A piece of bread in your pocket is better than a feather in your hat.
- Much wants more.
- You should not judge a dog by its fur.
- Everyone knows the monkey, but the monkey knows no one.
- You can’t teach old dogs to sit.
- Two wrongs do not make a right.
- No trees grow to the sky.
- Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- Reality surpasses the poem.
- If it tastes good it is expensive.
- Happiness comes happiness leaves.
- He who always knows best never learns.
- Who sits on your shoulders will try to climb on your head.
- Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
- A lazy thief is better than a lazy servant.
- Speak with farmers like farmers speak, and with the educated in latin.
- Stinginess deceives wisdom.
- Politicians are like crocodiles – big jaws but no ears.
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
- The young should be taught, the old should be honored.
- You should forge while the iron is hot.
- Appearances deceive.
- Money does not grow on trees.
- The most important thing is not to win, but to fight well.
- Don’t let grass grow on your feet.
- Easier said than done.
- The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- We all start out as children.
- All is fair in love and war.
- Advice should be viewed from behind.
- The master has long arms, but they don’t reach heaven.
- Empty barrels are noisiest.
- Don’t sell the fur until the bear has been shot.
- A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail.
- The exception confirms the rule.
- Cookie searches for a wife.
- Children do as you do, not as you say.
- Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors.
- The more chefs, the worse the soup.
- Don’t cross the stream to find water.
- He laughs best who laughs last.
- Money opens all gates but heaven’s.
- Midsummer night is not long but it sets many cradles rocking.
- Don’t set about mountains when there are pebbles.
- To dare is to lose your foothold for a moment, to not dare is to lose yourself.
- To speak is silver, to keep silent is gold.
- One learns as long as one lives.
- Easily caught, easily lost.
- Where wine enters sense leaves.
- As one is dressed one will be judged.
- Love is blind.
- Who is chasing after another must himself rest.
- Honor whom should be honored.
- One should not offer cinnamon rolls to baker’s children.
- If the head is dumb, the body suffers.
- Gold blinds many, love blinds all.
- A life without love is like a year without summer.
- Of what fills the heart speaks the mouth.
- Better to keep quiet than to speak poorly .
- You are always closest to yourself.
- When distress is the greatest, help is the nearest.
- When you’re speaking about the trolls, they’re standing in the entrance hall listening.
- Nothing is so good that it can’t be made better.
- The sun also has its spots.
- It is easy to be prudent in hindsight.
- You cannot ask more of an ox than a steak.
- Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
- One swallow does not a summer make.
- In the realm of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- Better late than never.
- Injury makes you wise.
- If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.
- Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things will be yours.
- The walls have ears.
- If a blind one leads another, they both fall together.
- A friend’s slap has honest intentions, your enemies’ kisses are meant to deceive.
- The eyes want more than the stomach.
- Quick wealth makes the man suspicious.
- Being young is a fault which improves daily.
- What matter if I suffer, if only my neighbor suffers too.
- Don’t sell the pelt until you’ve killed the bear.
- The water you collect from the stream teaches you about its source.
- One must take matters into one’s own hands.
- During the evening the lazy get in a hurry.
- It is to be bent in time, that which bent shall be.
- Time heals all wounds.
- Even the best can make mistakes.
- Better loved and lost than never loved.
- One should eat or one dies.
- A small tuft often overturns a big load.
- Death is God’s broom.
- No smoke without fire..
- A hearty laugh lengthens your life.
- A clenched fist can neither give nor take.
- Don’t let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Easier hides a wise man his wisdom than a fool his madness.
- Attack is the best defense.
- A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers make three hundred thieves.
- An accident rarely comes alone.
- To defend a wrong, is to wrong do anew.
- All good things are three.
- What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- All aren’t gold that glimmers.
- Forbidden fruit always tastes the best.
- The day we fear hastens toward us, the day we long for creeps.
- What you do not know does not hurt you.
- He who enters the game must endure it.
- In a small house God has his corner, in a large house He has to stand in the hall.
- Own praise has a bad smell.
- All eggs should not be put in one basket.
- Even a small star shines in the darkness.
- Those are wise that heed advice, but no one should heed dissuasive advice.
- Rather one bird in the hand, than ten in the woods.
- All roads lead to Rome.
- First to the mill will first grind.
- Do not wake the bear that sleeps.
- Evil shall by evil be expelled.
- Death is the last doctor.
- Sleeping farmer gets a dreaming farmhand.
- A beloved child has many names.
- Each bird sings according to its own beak.
- Better to dam the brook than the creek.
- Better to flee than to fence poorly.
- One shouldn’t buy a pig in a sack.
- ‘If it isn’t one thing it’s the other’ said the girl with a nosebleed.
- In the desert sand is cheap.
- He who builds and he who marries are never safe.
- Faith can move mountains.
- Don’t waste gunpowder on dead crows.
- When God brings death, the devil brings heirs.
- Where shall the ladle be if not in the cauldron?
- It is seldom the fault of one when two argue.
- You never get tired of working for yourself.
- Money does not smell.
- Grab the bull by its horns.
- Shame on he who gives up.
- He who bids for much, often loses all.
- When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.
- All methods are good except for the bad ones.
- The truth comes forward in wine.
- Expect nothing from friends, do what you can do yourself.
- Do not pull everyone over with a comb.
- A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy.
- Wisdom has long ears and short tongue.
- Love has produced some heroes but even more idiots.
- Luck never gives; it only lends.
- The devil visits the rich too – but he visits the poor twice.
- Things never turn out the way you imagined.
- Lovely flowers fade fast.
- If there is room in the heart, there is room for the behind.
- Thin mosquitoes bite the worse.
- All fools are brothers.
- As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Adversity exists to be overcome.
- While there is life there is hope.
- A woman is the last judge of the man.
- It will be like it will be.
- He who digs a pit for others, often falls into it himself.
- The pillow is the best adviser.
- Don’t wake a sleeping bear.
- Afterwards is no advice.
- Comes time comes counsel.
- Rome was not built in one day.
- Fortune favours the bold.
- Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Each smith has his custom.
- Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.
- Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
- The apple does not fall far from the tree.
- It is more blissful to give than to receive.
- He who has long fingers should also have long legs.
- Blood is thicker than water.
- Through yourself you know others.
- Dig where you stand.
- Do not make a hen out of a feather.
- The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
- When it rains on the priest, it dripples on the sacristan.
- It concerns you, too, when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
- Own hearth is gold worth.
- Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
- Honesty lasts the longest.
- The miser is his own mother-in-law.
- Take the custom where you come.
- Slow but steady.
- Pride goes before fall.
- An upstanding peasant is bigger than a nobleman on his knees.
- The end justifies the means.
- Time passes by quickly when you are enjoying yourself.
- ‘Sour’ said the fox about rowanberries.
- If you lose one, there are a thousand more to choose from.
- The loss on the swings is won back on the merry-go-round.
- A spoken word and a thrown stone cannot be called back.
- Distress knows no law.
- Do not weep over spilled milk.
- Variety delights.
- Nobody is too young to die tomorrow.
- Dear child has many names.
- Only Sweden has Swedish gooseberries.
- Hurry slowly.
- The end is good, everything is good.
- Each day has enough of its own misery.
- When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
- You must learn to crawl before you can walk.
- It is best to bite into the sour apple
- Angry cats get scratched skin.
- If you marry money the devil lays an egg in your storeroom.
- Nothing is new under the sun.
- Shortcuts are often ‘longcuts’.
- A soft answer calms the wrath.
- A clean conscience is the best pillow.
- One should not add oil to the fire.
- The road to hell is lined with good resolutions.
- After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation.
- Patience is the art of hoping.
- The donkey is known by his ears, the fool by his words.
- Don’t praise the day before the sun has set.
- In the calmest waters swim the ugliest fish.
- Let the food silence the mouth.
- When it rains manna from heaven, the poor one does not have a spoon.
- What doesn’t kill, hardens.
- Evil gun powder doesn’t go away easily.
- Treat others as you would want to be treated yourself.
- If you give someone a finger he wants the whole hand.
- As you make your bed, so will you sleep.
- Don’t saw off the branch you’re sitting on.
- It’s the thought that counts.
- A man without money is like a boat without sails.
- Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
- You have to correct your mouth according to your lunch pack.
- In darkness all cats are grey.
- Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
- They who want to sing will always find a song.
- After rain comes sunshine.
- Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
- One should not change horses in the middle of the stream.
- When the cat is away, the rats dance on the table.
- The nail that sticks out gets struck.
- Work is half of health.
- One should not bow before stupidity merely because it is old.
- Small wounds and poor friends should not be despised.
- Eyes that do not cry, do not see.
- It’s a small world.
- Self-praise stinks.
- The dripping can hollow the stone.
- You don’t miss the cow until the stall is empty.
- He who saves, has.
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