More Welsh Proverbs
- To sing before breakfast is to weep before supper.
- Three comforts of old age: fire, tea and tobacco.
- Tapping persistently breaks the stone.
- Everything that is yellow is not gold.
- Everything you have in this world is just borrowed for a short time.
- It is good to look homewards.
- The best shortage is a shortage of words.
- The seed of all evil is laziness.
- The best knowledge is to know yourself.
- The world is wide to everyone.
- The child will grow, his clothes will not.
- He who has no faults is not born.
- Every bird relishes his own voice.
- Anger is the mother of treachery.
- Reason is the wise man’s guide, example the fool’s.
- The guilty flee with no one chasing them.
- He who steals an egg will steal more.
- Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing.
- Milk for a child, meat for a man, beer for the old.
- Starting the work is two thirds of it.
- The old know and the young suspect.
- Never trust overmuch to a new friend or an old enemy.
- Old feel the blows suffered when young.
- The kettles boiling and I’m ready..
- A youth’s promise is like the froth of water.
- At the end of the song comes payment.
- Man learns from the cradle to the grave.