I was wise once: when I was born I cried.

More Welsh Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.