More Welsh Proverbs
- 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.
- No good will come of over sleeping.
- A word to the wise, a stick to the unwise.
- Of all weights, old age is the heaviest.
- Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
- Best Welshman, Welshman from Home.
- All waiting is long.
- Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.
- The achievement of all work is practice.
- There’s reward in every goodness.
- The spring sun is worse than poison.
- Death considers not the fairest forehead.
- A boy is easier cheated than an old lady.