Quotes from German proverb

Too much luck is bad luck

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

The old forget, the young don't know.

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

Buying is cheaper than asking.

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

To bury grief plant a seed.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

No doctor is better than three.

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

Medicines are not meat to live by.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.