German ProverbsDefinitions

Beauty is as good as ready money.

Being single is unadvisable for a woman. Without a man she is like a garden without a fence.

But is a fence over which few venture.

Experience is a good medicine, but it does not come until the illness has passed.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Fortune is like the market, where if you will bide your time the price will fall.

Friendship is a bread that tastes good as long as it is new.

Glory is a circle in water which grows wider and then disappears.

Heart is a child, it hopes what it wishes.