There is nothing in the world so poor as going to hell.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about hell, world, nothing
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Never sleep with a stranger or borrow from a neighbour.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sleep
Those who get the name of rising early may lie all day.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about name, lie, day
'Tis as hard to see a woman cry, as a goose go barefoot.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman
Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-houses.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about state
Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallion's tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about mistake
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people
Often have the likely failed and the unlikely prospered.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
True friendship is like one soul living in two bodies. -.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about friendship, soul
Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about poverty
Patience and forbearance make a bishop of his reverence.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about patience
Three people can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about secret, people
He who is best for me is he who shall get the best share.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
What won't choke will fatten and clean dirt is no poison.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about things
Money makes the horse gallop whether he has shoes or not.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about money
From the king to the beggar, they all depend on the farm.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about mistake
Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
When your hand is in the dog's mouth, withdraw it gently.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
