Germanic Advice and Proverbs

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Make work your friend and you will always have a friend.

Do your chores cheerfully and of your own accord.

Treat your family the way you want your best friend to treat you.

Compare yesterday's challenge with today's success.

Train as if it is real and when its real do what you have trained.

Learn it. Do it. Teach it. Understand it.

Every beginning is difficult.

There is sunshine after every rainfall.

The appetite comes while eating.

The action has a mightier impact than the word.

First think, then steer.

Eat what's been well cooked, drink liquids which are clear, and speak what is true.

If time comes, advice comes

One shouldn't praise the day before the evening.

No diligence, no prize.

Trying is worth more than studying.

It's easy to become a father, but hard to be one.

Trust is good, but verification is better.

Many enemies, much honor. ~Common German Proverb attributed to Georg von Frundsberg (1473-1528), a German Landsknecht commander

What the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat. ( How to eat healthy )

Who doesn't care about cents isn't worthy to keep a dollar.

Just as one calls into the forest, so it echoes back.

When two quarrel, the third rejoices.

Time is money.

Drinking leads to arguments and loose talk. Drink to be wise, watchful and very careful. ( Very Germanic Saying )

Honest work never hurt.

You learn from your mistakes.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

There is strength in unity.

Work before pleasure.

Eating and drinking and physical excersice holds the body and soul together.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Opposites attract.

Money doesn't buy happiness.

Money ruins character.

Silence is golden, speech is silver.

The strong will gives the work its name.

The work praises the workman.

There is no off switch on a tiger.

They are not all friends who laugh with you.

Thrift is a great revenue.

To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.

To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing.

To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.

Water is the strongest drink; it drives mills.

Would you be strong, conquer yourself.

Be not ashamed of your craft. ( Today this would mean talent, skills, worksmanship )

Better an honest enemy than a false friend.

One man's story is no story; hear both sides.

Promises don't fill the belly.

Prudent men choose frugal wives.

Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he had it.

Saving is a greater art than gaining.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
 
Germans also had a couple of other phrases they liked to use. Perhaps you're also familiar with kulture kampf and lebenschraum?
 
guido said:
Germans also had a couple of other phrases they liked to use. Perhaps you're also familiar with kulture kampf and lebenschraum?

You do not even know what you are talking about. This is a whole alots different story than the traditional Germanic sayings and proverbs.
 
Heath said:
You do not even know what you are talking about. This is a whole alots different story than the traditional Germanic sayings and proverbs.

Oh, heritage, not hate, huh?
 
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