2263 German Proverbs / Page 173
- 1721. The person who has no enemies also has no friends.
 - 1722. The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.
- 1723. The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it gets broken at last.
- 1724. The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
- 1725. The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.
- 1726. The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
- 1727. The preacher must be like a chicken who always has an egg in reserve.
- 1728. The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.
- 1729. The repeated stroke will fell the oak.
- 1730. The rich have medicines the poor have health.
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