Proverbs and old sayings Irish, page 41

904 proverbs and old sayings irish

What the child sees, the child does. What the child does, the child is.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about children

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad, rightness

No matter how often a pitcher goes to the water it is broken in the end.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about end, water

Limerick was, Dublin is, and Cork shall be the finest city of the three.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about city

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

Death is in front of the old person and at the back of the young person.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people, death, old, olderness

A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck, woman

The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

No war is more bitter than the war of friends, but it does not last long.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about war, bitter

Money swore an oath that nobody that did not love it should ever have it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about oath, money, love

No matter how tall your grandfather was, you have to do your own growing.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When the goat goes to church, he does not stop till he gets to the altar.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fall, man

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about rest, life

Friends are like fiddle-strings and they must not be screwed too tightly.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about old, olderness

It's not the fault of the mouse, but of the one who offers him the cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it's a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about commerce, fear, heads, woman

He thinks that he himself is the very stone that was hurled at the castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

No-one is ever poor who has the sight of his eyes and the use of his feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use, eyes