German proverbs

God will help a seaman in a storm but the pilot must still remain at the wheel.

Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient, at least to the apothecary.

A good soldier has only three things to think about; the king, God, and nothing.

He who praises in praesentia, and abuses in absentia, have with him pestilentia.

A huckster who cannot pass off mouse-turd for pepper, has not learned his trade.

One kisses the child for the mother's sake, and the mother for the child's sake.

Between a woman's ""Yes"" and ""No"" there is no room for the point of a needle.

Where there's money, there is the devil; but where there's none, a greater evil.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.

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