2263 German Proverbs / Page 143
- 1421. Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
 - 1422. Promises don't fill the belly.
- 1423. Promises have legs. Only a gift has hands.
- 1424. Promises make debts.
- 1425. Promises may make friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.
- 1426. Promising is one thing, performing another.
- 1427. Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught and some fly away.
- 1428. Prudent men choose frugal wives.
- 1429. Prudent men woo thrifty women.
- 1430. Prudent pauses forward business.
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