There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

You wake up one morning and find you are old

Who goes to bed supperless, all night tumbles and tosses

There’s many a slip between the cup and lip

What goes up must come down

Water always flows down, not up

Train up a child in the way he should

To make the cup run over

The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down

The sun shines upon all alike

The still sow eats up all the draft

The lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him

The last drop makes the cup run over

The deed comes upon the doer

The cow that’s firs up, gets the first of the dew

Sweet in the bed, and sweir up in the morning, was never a good housewife

Short prayers run up to heaven

Put not an embroidered crupper on an ass

Penny and penny laid up will be many

Pain is the price that God puts upon all things

One woe doth tread upon another’s heels

Marriage rides upon the saddle and repentance upon the crupper

Many things fall between the cup and the lip

Many dogs soon eat up a horse

The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns

The higher up, the greater the fall

Never say “die”; up, man , and try

When thou dost hear a toll or knell, then think upon thy passing bell

When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke

When the cuckoo comes, he eats up all the dirt (udaberria datorrelako)

Like teacher, like pupil

Like cover, like cup

Sorrow treads upon the heels of mirth

A stupid question deserves no answer

A storm in a teacup

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