The seed of all evil is laziness.

More Welsh Proverbs

• Everything that is yellow is not gold.
• To sing before breakfast is to weep before supper.
• Three comforts of old age: fire, tea and tobacco.
• Tapping persistently breaks the stone.
• The seed of all evil is laziness.
• 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.
• He who has no faults is not born.
• The best knowledge is to know yourself.
• The world is wide to everyone.
• The child will grow, his clothes will not.
• The guilty flee with no one chasing them.
• Every bird relishes his own voice.
• Anger is the mother of treachery.
• Reason is the wise man’s guide, example the fool’s.
• Starting the work is two thirds of it.
• 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.
• The kettles boiling and I’m ready..
• 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.
• No good will come of over sleeping.
• A youth’s promise is like the froth of water.
• At the end of the song comes payment.