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| Irish proverb
A blind man can see his mouth.A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle.A dimple in the chin; a devil within.A dog with two homes is never any good.A fast is better than a bad meal.A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's bookA good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.A good retreat is better than a bad stand.A hut is a palace to the poor man.A lock is better than suspicion.A man is often a bad adviser to himself and a good adviser to another.A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.A silent mouth is sweet to hear.A sly rogue is often in good dress.A trade not properly learned is an enemy.A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it's a cat.All sins cast long shadows.An old broom knows the dirty corners best.Any man can lose his hat in a fairy wind.Anything will fit a naked man.Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.Better be quarreling than lonesome.Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within.Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.Beware of people who dislike cats.Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.Crafty advice is often got from a fool.Death is the poor man's best physician.Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way. Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty floor.Every invalid is a doctor.Every patient is a doctor after his cure.Everyone is nice until the cow gets into the garden.Everyone is wise until he speaks.Fear is a fine spur; so is rage.Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.God is good, but never dance in a small boat.Good luck beats early rising.Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides.Great hate follows great love.Handfuls make a load.Happiness follows simplicity.He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.His eyes are like two burnt holes in a blanket.Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.If God shuts one door, He opens another.If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet.If you come up in this world, be sure not to go down in the next.If you have one pair of good soles it is better than two pairs of good uppers.Instinct is stronger than upbringing.Instinct is stronger than upbringing.It destroys the craft not to learn it.It is a long road that has no turning.It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.It is better to exist unknown to the law.It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead.It is not a fish until it is on the bank.It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.It's a bad hen that won't scratch herself.It's as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.It's for her own good that the cat purrs.It's no delay to stop to edge the tool.It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool.Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.Lack of resource has hanged many a person.Let him who will not have advice have conflict.Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.Marriages are all happy. It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.Men are like bagpipes: no sound comes from them till they're full.Mere words do not feed the friars.Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.Nature will come through the claws, and the hound will follow the hare.Need teaches a plan.Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.Never buy through your ears but through your eyes.No matter how often a pitcher goes to the water it is broken in the end.Nodding the head does not row the boat.Patience is poultice for all wounds.People live in each other's shelter.Poor is the church without music.Poor men take to the sea, the rich to the mountains.Postpone not a good action.Poverty parts good company.Praise the ripe field, not the green corn.Praise the young and they will blossom.Put a beggar on horseback and he'll gallop.Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat.Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.Soft words butter no parsnips, but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either.Take gifts with a sigh; most men give to be paid.The beginning of health is sleep.The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.The devil never grants long leases.The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind finely.The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.There never was a scabby sheep in a flock that didn't like to have a comrade.There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it.There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar.Treachery returns.Trust me, but look to thyself.Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.What's good for the goose is good for the gander.You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail, and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.Youth has a small head.Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever. |
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