Proverbs of the 11th century, from Egbert of Liège’s The Well-Laden Ship:

• 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.

And “One way or another, brothers, we will all pass from here.”