Unemployment does not guarantee leisure.
Don't try to buy fish in the dry towns.
Forget favours you have bestowed, remember those you have received.
Nothing in this world is certain but death and next winter's snows.
Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and god will send flax.
The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.
If you lie down with a man, you may rise up as a woman.
Nothing is certain but the unforeseen.
Only a race horse or a comyn lord is judged by his pedigree.
Eggs should not fight stones.
The world goes as men make it go; and men are free to make it go otherwise, if they have the courage.
Not a long day, but a good heart, rids work.
Can a mill go with the water that's past?
If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet 'twill leave some mark.
If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.
A rabbithorn cannot be a war-horse and will only become a laughingstock if he should try.
Where two women rule a hearth-fire, the thatch may burn with the sparks flying.
None so keen at the hunting of wolves as the dog with wolf blood.
The best horse can't wear two saddles.
The world goes as it will and not as you or I would want it.
Wear no sword at kinsman's board.
It needs no laran to prophesy snow at midwinter.
Rats make havoc in the kitchen when the cat's a kitten.
Can a mouse fall in love with a cat?
He who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
Where villany goes before, vengeance follows after.
Grief unspoken turns to poison.
If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.
