More Welsh Proverbs
- The strength of a nation is its knowledge.
- A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.
- Do good and then do it again.
- I was wise once: when I was born I cried.
- Memory slips, letters remain.
- Be a friend to yourself, and others will.
- If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
- Things turn sour when you play with fire.
- Adversity brings knowledge and knowledge wisdom.
- The crow sees its chick as white.
- A great sin can enter through a small door.
- Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work.
- To return to my trees – to relax and unwind, to calm your mind.
- Better educated than wealthy.
- Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.
- You must crawl before walking.
- The older the man, the weaker his mind.
- The strength of the old is their ready counsel.
- 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.