Amish Proverbs - Baker Publishing Group

AcknowledgmentsThese collections are drawn, with permission, from a varietyof sources: The Sugarcreek Budget, Proverbs of the PennsylvaniaGermans by Dr. Edwin Miller Fogel, the PennsylvaniaGerman Dictionary by C. Richard Beam, and the sayings and adagesI grew up hearing from my grandfather’s Old Order GermanBaptist Brethren family.My grandfather—we called him Deardad—was famous forpointing out to me with a frown that “young folks should usetheir ears and not their mouths.”Another saying I grew up hearing was, “Choose your love andlove your choice.” That one belongs to my mother.9Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Proverbs, expanded editionRevell Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2012. Used by permission.