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.

God gives the wheat, He doesn't bake the bread.

Lower Austria Proverb

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Lower Austria Proverb

Success has more than one father.

Lower Austria Proverb

To be drunk every day is also a regular life.

Lower Austria Proverb

If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them.

Lower Austria Proverb

History is constantly teaching, but it does not find many pupils.

Lower Austria Proverb

There are more chains than mad dogs.

Lower Austria Proverb

The earth does not shake when the flea coughs.

Lower Austria Proverb

A educated woman finds few suitors.

Lower Austria Proverb

The situation is hopeless, but not serious.

Lower Austria Proverb

First bake the strudel then sit down and ponder.

Lower Austria Proverb

What I do not know will not keep me warm.

Lower Austria Proverb

The cripple is always the one to open the dancing.

Lower Austria Proverb

A marriage is a procession in which the cross goes first.

Lower Austria Proverb

Old men and poodles are good for nothing.

Lower Austria Proverb

Imitate the sundial's ways, count only the pleasant days.

Lower Austria Proverb

Do not allow the Gypsies to lure you out behind the furnace.

Lower Austria Proverb

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

Lower Austria Proverb

A lazy man is the devils handyman.

Lower Austria Proverb

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Lower Austria Proverb

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Lower Austria Proverb

If you owe 10,000 dollars, you are a customer of the bank.

Lower Austria Proverb