German Sayings and Proverbs

Be kind, be brave and never give up!

Life is too short to learn German.

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

The Germans and many others have the gift to make science inaccessible.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

In Germany, success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Germany... where the national motto is, "let's stick to the present, shall we?"

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Never forget what someone says to you when they're angry because that's when the truth comes out.

Enjoy your youth.
You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.