Everything has an end.

Patience is a virtue.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The dog returns to it’s vomit.

Art is long and life is short.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

While the grass grows, the steed starves.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Practise what you preach.

Silence means consent.

Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.

Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Be what you would seem to be.

It is better to give than to receive.

Pride goes before a fall.

Soon ripe, soon rotten.

Fortune favours the brave.

The rotten apple injures its neighbour.

Far-fetched and dear-bought is good for ladies.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

It is merry in hall when beards wag all.

A short horse is soon curried.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

After a storm comes a calm.

A fool may give a wise man counsel.

Light come, light go.

Look before you leap.

So many men, so many opinions.

Of two evils choose the less.

Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.

East to live, not live to eat.

God never sends mouths but He sends meat.

Nothing venture, nothing have.

Manners maketh man.

Stolen waters are sweet.

An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

Fair and softly goes far in a day.

Haste makes waste.

Three things are not to be trusted; a cow’s horn, a dog’s tooth, and a horse’s hoof.

Misfortunes never come singly.

There is a time for everything.

The higher the monkey climbs the more he shows his tail.

When Adam delved and Even span, who was then the gentleman?

If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves.

He that touches pitch shall be defiled.

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

More haste, less speed.