English Proverb

He laughs best who laughs last.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

The absent are always in the wrong.