One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.
Proverbs and old sayings
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An oath broken by one does not thereafter bind the other.
Proverbs and old sayings about oath
There is nothing so evil as the mind of a virtuous woman.
Proverbs and old sayings about mind, woman, nothing
Not even a god can bring back the leaves that have fallen.
Proverbs and old sayings about god
A devil with fine manners can still carry you only to hell.
Proverbs and old sayings about hell, devil, contentment
If ill luck were cheese, dairy-women would go wanting work.
Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, good luck, work
Only a race horse or a Comyn lord is judged by his pedigree.
Proverbs and old sayings
The sex of a cralmac is of interest only to another cralmac.
Proverbs and old sayings about sex, interest
The world goes as it will and not as you or I would want it.
Proverbs and old sayings about world, contentment
If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Underneath every bush you'll find a mud rabbit ready to bolt.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send flax.
Proverbs and old sayings about god
No man is so young he cannot teach, or so old he cannot learn.
Proverbs and old sayings about man, old, olderness
One who is false to her first oath will be false to her second.
Proverbs and old sayings about oath
He who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
Proverbs and old sayings about death
None so keen at the hunting of wolves as the dog with wolf blood.
Proverbs and old sayings about blood
Forget favours you have bestowed, remember those you have received.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Nothing in this world is certain but death and next winter's snows.
Proverbs and old sayings about death, world, nothing
If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet 'twill leave some mark.
Proverbs and old sayings
A roan horse and a black can travel equally far in a day's journey.
Proverbs and old sayings about magic, day
