Lower Austria Proverbs

Lower Austria Proverbs draw on Danube trade and vineyard life in the Wachau, once a Habsburg heartland. They praise thrift, neighborly help, and steady work, mixing Catholic images with dry Alpine wit.

A light is still a light -- even though the blind man cannot see it. (Lower Austria Proverb)
God gives the wheat, He doesn't bake the bread. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
Success has more than one father. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
To be drunk every day is also a regular life. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
History is constantly teaching, but it does not find many pupils. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
There are more chains than mad dogs. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
The earth does not shake when the flea coughs. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
A educated woman finds few suitors. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
The hunt is like a dance for men, for the women the dance is the hunt. (Lower Austria Proverb)
The situation is hopeless, but not serious. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
First bake the strudel then sit down and ponder. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
What I do not know will not keep me warm. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
The cripple is always the one to open the dancing. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
A marriage is a procession in which the cross goes first. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
Old men and poodles are good for nothing. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
Imitate the sundial's ways, count only the pleasant days. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
Do not allow the Gypsies to lure you out behind the furnace. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
A blind chicken will often find an ear of corn. (Lower Austria Proverb)
A lazy man is the devils handyman. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
If you owe 10,000 dollars, you are a customer of the bank. View proverb
Lower Austria Proverb
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