17 German Proverbs about Priest
All German Proverbs | Proverbs about Priest1. Beware of laughing hosts and weeping priests.
2. Doctor Luther's shoes do not fit every parish priest.
3. Either fight not with priests or beat them to death.
4. Every priestling conceals a popeling.
5. Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.
6. God's friends, the priest's foe.
7. Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat.
8. Priests and women never forget.
9. Priests bless themselves first.
10. Priests even smile pleasantly on young women.
11. Priests pay each other no tithes.
12. Priests should not prate out of the confessional.
13. The bites of priests and wolves are hard to heal.
14. The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.
15. There is no occasion for priests to marry, while peasants have wives.
16. Wherever there is mischief, there is sure to be a priest and a woman in it.
17. Priests and road signs show you the way but don't go with you.
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