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German Proverbs

Think with the wise but walk with the vulgar.

In America half an hour is forty minutes.

There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.

With nice appearance people want to be deceived.

A bad cause requires many words.

To change and to improve are two different things.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.

A dream grants what one covets when awake.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

When God gives hard bread he gives sharp teeth.

Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a fool who holds his tongue.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.

What grows makes no noise.

Nowhere are there more hiding places than in the heart.

Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.

Success has many fathers.

Schnapps is schnapps and business is business.

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.

An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles away from the goal.