I have 3 but would LOVE to hear more…
You can always have more but you can’t have less
This one’s from my dad and it really stuck with me. You can, and really should, apply this to any intoxicant.
On the pitch is off the streets
This is about getting restless kids, or kids who might be in a bad situation, into sports.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers
Translation on this one: People who cause hurt are less likely to remember than those it affected.
You can never go home again.
The act of leaving means you and possibly your home and the people around it are now divergent. It loses the familiarity that made it comfortable.
Nobody gets out of life alive, life is a terminal condition.
Just setting expectations. Hopefully the realization that you only get one go at it, so try to live while you can.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
I remember this because so many use it as a validation of punishment - the allusion to beating the child with a stick. What it means is to guide a child like a shepherd guides a flock using a crook or whatever. Teach and guide a child so they grow up well.
Everyone can be jealous of what you got, but nobody is jealous of how hou got it
Pretty self explanatory.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Just a tired old truism that young people just don’t appreciate what they have. Either health, time, looks, whatever. It’s true. They can’t. It’s like not appreciating breathing until you have a bad cold and realize the value of not having a plugged up nose.