Sentence examples of "Weib" in German

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Translations: all7 woman6 wife1
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who does not love wine, women and song; remains a fool his whole life long.
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. He who loves not wine, woman and songs, remains a fool his whole life long.
Wem der große Wurf gelungen, eines Freundes Freund zu sein; wer ein holdes Weib errungen, mische seinen Jubel ein! Whoever has succeeded in the great attempt to be a friend's friend; whoever has won a lovely woman, add in his jubilation!
Die grosse Frage, die nie beantwortet worden ist und die ich trotz dreißig Jahre langem Forschen in der weiblichen Seele nie habe beantworten können, ist die: Was will das Weib? The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Zwischen Männern ist von Natur bloß Gleichgültigkeit, aber zwischen Weibern ist schon von Natur Feindschaft. Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
John machte Beth zu seinem Weibe. John made Beth his wife.
Wenn wirklich die Griechen die Weiber nicht ins Schauspiel gelassen haben, so taten sie demnach recht daran; wenigstens wird man in ihren Theatern doch etwas haben hören können. If it is true that the Greeks forbade women to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something.
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