German proverbs

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.

Who neither believes heaven or hell, the devil heartily wishes him well.

Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another's nightingale.

Nothing looks more like a man of sense than a fool who holds his tongue.

Criticism of the state is all right, but don't forget the nation is you.

All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket.

No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn.

A foreign language is more easily learned in the kitchen than at school.

Who deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me.

Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord.

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