German Proverb
German Proverb
enemy good harm hundred
One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good
evil good
One does evil enough when one does nothing good
bad good hold luck
In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in
catch cats drive good mice
The cats that drive the mice away are as good as they that catch them
invented whoever work
Whoever invented work must not have had anything to do
cares learn teacher whoever
Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher
folks fond great talking
Little folks are fond of talking about what great folks do
change
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
life lost school
Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life
start sweep top
When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top
longer power rest smallest
Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power
boy man teaches
He who teaches a boy teaches three: a youth, a young man, and an old man
himself others
He who blackens others does not whiten himself
happen life
You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it