I have written a small script which produces random phrases from the beginnings and endings of proverbs. Some are hilarious, some are just dull. But I have included a way to optionally “qualify” the output.

This thread makes me look up the list of those examples that I once found worth keeping, so “here are the results of the jury”:

• The best way to a man's heart is another man's treasure.
• Children tell no tales.
• People who live in glass houses have ears.
• The pen is power.
• A bad settlement is least heeded.
• Children are doomed to repeat it.
• All cats have ears.
• Children die young.
• God is my friend.
• Good fences were meant to be broken.
• Barking dogs are doomed to repeat it.
• Beggars shouldn't throw stones.

Thank you!

Walls have ears.

Les murs ont des oreilles.

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cf.

related discussion: [fr-de] Redensarten und Sprichwörter Nr. 36

Ein Tag ohne Wein ist wie ein Tag ohne Sonne.

Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil.

A day without wine is like a day without sunshine.

cf. related discussion: [fr-de] Redensarten und Sprichwörter Nr. 38