- Not every cloud you see threatens rain.
- A boy is consumed by envy, an old man by anger.
- A reasonable sufficiency is more righteous than dishonorable riches.
- One does well to distrust a stream, even one that is calm.
- Sometimes an old dog growls the truth.
- It is a hard cheese that the greedy man does not give to his dogs.
- He who cannot conceal, ought not to become a thief.
- Whose bread I eat, his songs I sing.
- All the gold that a king has does not equal this rain.
- No thief will be hanged, if he himself is the judge.
- What earned this one praise gets that one a beating.
- Smoky things appear by day, and fiery things by night.
- The living husband is incensed by praise of the dead one.
- A stupid person who is corrected, immediately hates his admonisher.
- It is not the lowliest of virtues to have placed a limit on your wealth.
- No mother-in-law is pleasing to her daughter-in-law unless she is dead.
- A frog on a throne quickly gives up the honor.
- When you trade one fish for another, one of them stinks.
- Whoever hates his work, surely hated himself first.
- To a man hanging, any delay seems too long.
from Egbert of Liège’s The Well-Laden Ship
