2263 German Proverbs / Page 82
1621. 
The devil is in the details.
1622. 
The devil is never so black as he is painted.
1623. 
The devil likes to souse what is already wet.
1624. 
The devil looks after his own.
1625. 
The devil lurks behind the cross.
1626. 
The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerk's fingers.
1627. 
The devil makes work for idle hands.
1628. 
The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail.
1629. 
The dog rages at the stone, not at him that throws it.
1630. 
The dog returns to its vomit.
1631. 
The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it.
1632. 
The dogs bite the last.
1633. 
The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets.
1634. 
The eagle does not catch flies.
1635. 
The egg will be more knowing than the hen.
1636. 
The empty waggon must make room for the full one.
1637. 
The end of wrath is the beginning of repentance.
1638. 
The executioner is a keen shaver.
1639. 
The eye is bigger than the belly.
1640. 
The eye is never satiated with seeing.
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