2263 German Proverbs
- 1. "Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.
![](/img/view.gif) - 2. "All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.
![](/img/view.gif) - 3. "An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.
![](/img/view.gif) - 4. "Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.
![](/img/view.gif) - 5. "But" is a fence over which few leap.
![](/img/view.gif) - 6. "Force me, and I shall commit no sin," said the girl.
![](/img/view.gif) - 7. "Great cry and little wool," said the fool, when he sheared a pig.
![](/img/view.gif) - 8. "Had I known" is a poor man.
![](/img/view.gif) - 9. "I have had" is a poor man.
![](/img/view.gif) - 10. "I have" is a better bird than "If I had."
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