PROVERBS
A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.
A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe
A boys best friend is his mother
and theres no spancel stronger that her apron string
A constant guest is never welcome.
A country without a language is a country without a soul
A drink precedes a story.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
A good denial, the best point in law.
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
A hen is heavy when carried far.
A hound's food is in its legs.
A lock is better than suspicion.
A man with loud talk makes truth itself seem folly.
A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
A hound's food is in its legs.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A person often grabs a rod, which beats (the person) themselves.
A persons heart is in his feet.
A poor person is often worthy.
A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood
A short visit is best, and that not too often, even to the house of a friend.
A silent mouth is melodious.
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
Age is honorable and youth is noble.
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France.
(Traditional Irish Saying)
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
As the old cock crows the young cock learns
A wild goose never reared a tame gosling
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Beauty will not make the pot boil.
Blind should be the eyes in the abode of another.
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
Don't bring your troubles to the person who hasn't got sympathy for your case
Don't marry a woman without faults.
Even a small thorn causes festering.
Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door
Every patient is a doctor - after his cure
Everyone is friendly, until a cow gets into his garden
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Firelight will not let you read fine stories;
but, it's warm & you won't see the dust on the floor. .
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
Give your love to your wife and your secret to your mother
Good luck beats early rising.
Great hate follows great love.
He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell
I would rather have a clever woman than a rich one.
If God shuts one door, He opens another.
If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
If you hit my dog you hit myself.
If you want to be criticized, marry.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
It is a long road that has no turning.
It is better to exist unknown to the law.
It is not fish until it is on the bank.
It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being
up a while and down a while.
It is not a secret if it is known by three people.
It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
It is the good horse that draws its own cart.
It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day.
It's better to solve the problem than to improve the law.
It's easy to halve a potato where there's love.
It's for her own good that the cat purrs
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.
Kill the horse and you will get grass.
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is.
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
Many a defect is seen in the poor man.
Many an irish property was increased by the lace of a daughters petticoat
Many are the days we'll be spending in the church. ( cemetary)
Marriages are all happy- 'tis having breakfast together that causes all the trouble
Marry a woman from the mountain, and you'll marry the mountain.
May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.
(Traditional Irish Curse)
May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
Mere words do not feed the friars.
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Never let your feet run faster than your shoes
Need teaches a plan.
Two shorten the road.
Living by the sea, stops old wounds from hurting,
revives the spirit and quickens the passions
Nodding the head does not row the boat.
Patience is poultice for all wounds.
Pebbles suit walls as well as big rocks.
People live in each other's shelter
Praise the young and they will blossom
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him
Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment.
Take gifts with a sigh , most men give to be paid
Talk is easier than deed
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 fox never found a better messenger than himself
The hole is more honorable than the patch.
The lake is not encumbered by the swan;
nor the steed by the bridle;
nor the sheep by the wool;
nor the man by the soul that is in him.
The light heart lives long.
The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.
The most rare thing is the most wonderful
The mocking person, is half (the joke) himself
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune
The person that isn't strong, has to be clever
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
The smallest thing outlives the human being.
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
The well fed does not understand the lean.
The whole world couldn't better a proverb.
The Windy day is not a day for scallops (thatching)
The work praises the man.
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
There is no fireside like your own fireside.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
There is no strength without unity.
There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
Time is a great story teller.
Tis often that ugly was nice, and beauty was bad.
True greatness knows gentleness..
Two thirds of the work is the semblance.
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
There is no strength without unity.
There'll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot
Time is a great story teller.
Two shorten the road.
Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.
When wrathful words arise a closed mouth is soothing.
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
Wine divulges truth.
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 cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
You must live with a person to know a person.
If you want to know me come and live with me.
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 sheds many a skin.
The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.