Everybody is good natured until a cow goes into his garden.
Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat.
Distant hills look green.
A beetle recognizes another beetle.
There is often the look of an angel on the Devil himself.
The man (person) is the clothes.
Deep is the hole of doubt.
An eye evades a thing it does not see.
Praise the day in the evening.
It is not the great men that always reap the harvest.
A hen [carried] far is a heavy thing.
Whether the road is crooked or straight, the main road is the short cut.
(Aternatively: The longest way round is the shortest way home.)
It is hard to whistle and eat at the same time.
His own share is charity to the fool.
Sense does not come before age.
When the wine is in(side), the sense is out(side).
Food is not better than sense.
It is better to back out of the middle of the ford than to be drowned in the flood.
Every cock crows boldly in his own farmyard.
Every terrier is bold in the door of its house.
A good run(ning) is better than a bad stand(ing).
There is no wise man without fault.
There tends to be a black sheep (even) in the whitest flock.
No generous person ever went to hell.
The well-fed (person) does not understand the slender (person).
A friend is known in hardship.
What drags on grows cold.
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
Whoever does not plant in the spring does not reap in the fall.
A moving leg gets something.
A penny gets another penny.
An empty sack does not stand.
The tiredness leaves but the profit remains.
(The) talk doesn't wear the clothes.
The work praises the man.
Lie with the lamb, and rise with the bird.
On bite of a rabbit is better than two bites of a cat.
Three kinds of brains:
a running brain,
a rock brain,
a wax brain.
Many a tall man has a weak middle.
However long the day, the evening will come.
The four least useful things;
a headache, a bitter mouth,
a worried mind, and an empty pocket.
Three things hardest to understand;
the intellect of women, the work of the bees,
the coming and going of the tide.
The world would not make a race horse out of an ass (donkey).
Little things tend to be tasty.
Little (things) tend not to be soft.
Many a prudent girl was led astray with honeyed words.
The quiet one is often guilty.
The heaviest ear of grain bends its head the lowest.
The treachery returns to the betrayer.
A silent mouth is sweet.
Much talk with little reason.
The quiet one is often guilty.
The one who opens his mouth the most, 'tis he who opens his purse the least.
Say little but say it well.
Don't keep your tongue under your belt.
Where there are women there is talk, and where there are geese there is cackling.
Tell it to Mary in a whisper, and Mary will tell it to the parish.
It is not a secret after three people know it.
(The) talk doesn't wear the clothes.
It is often that a person's tongue cut his throat.
It is often that a person's mouth broke his nose.
A proverb can not be refuted.
There's no worth to a story without an author.
The truth is bitter.
Twenty years coming,
Twenty years good,
Twenty years declining, and
Twenty years useless.
Life goes by as if it had wings,
and every Christmas puts
another year on your shoulder.
A ragged colt often made a powerful horse.
Youth does not care where it sets its foot.
Praise a youth and she will come.