2263 German Proverbs / Page 21
401.
Credit is better than ready money.402.
Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of every devil.403.
Criticism of the state is all right, but don't forget the nation is you.404.
Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight.405.
Cunning surpasses strength.406.
Curiosity killed the cat.407.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.408.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.409.
Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law.410.
Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to marry.411.
Dead dogs don't bite.412.
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour.413.
Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient, at least to the apothecary.414.
Debtors are liars.415.
Deferred is not annulled.416.
Devils must be driven out with devils.417.
Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing.418.
Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others.419.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.420.
Do not despise an insignificant enemy, nor a slight wound.