2263 German Proverbs / Page 91
1801.
There's nowt so queer as folk.1802.
There's one born every minute.1803.
There's seldom a cake but there's more of the make.1804.
They are not all cooks who carry long knives.1805.
They are not all friends who laugh with you.1806.
They are not all hunters who blow horns.1807.
They love the old that do not know the new.1808.
They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days.1809.
They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.1810.
They need much whom nothing will content.1811.
They play till they quarrel.1812.
They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.1813.
They who come from afar are prone to lie.1814.
They who deserve honour, fail of it; and they who obtain it, do not deserve it.1815.
They who eat cherries with the great, are like to have the stones and stalks flung in their face.1816.
They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away.1817.
Thievery and lying are kissing cousins.1818.
Think with the wise but walk with the vulgar.1819.
Thirteen nuns, fourteen children.1820.
Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.