Proverbs and old sayings, page 1166

43575 proverbs and old sayings

It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

If you put a silk dress on a goat, he is a goat still.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Rarely is a fight continued when the chief has fallen.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fight

Big men are not the only kind that can reap a harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A woman without is she who has neither pipe nor child.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about children, woman

You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use, home, house

An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about thieves

Everything troubles you and the cat breaks your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about problems, heart, contentment

The one who waits the fine day, will get the fine day.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about day

When a heifer is far from home she grows longer horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home

It is better to have part of a man than no man at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

The well fed person doesn't understand the hungry one.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

Women are stronger than men, they do not die of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, death, man

Keep your tongue in your jaw and your tow in your pump.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about enemies, home, house

What's all the world to a man when his wife is a widow.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife, world, man