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More Welsh Proverbs

• 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.
• The young laugh when the old fall.
• Repay evil with good, and hell will not claim you.
• Old age is a hundred disorders.
• Better my own cottage than the palace of another.
• Every flock has its black sheep.
• Home is home, however poor it is.
• The child will grow, his clothes will not.
• Repay evil with good, and hell will not claim you.