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It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use

The full person can not understand the needs of the hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bills, contentment

'What a dust we kick up, ' as the fly said to the cart wheel.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

One pair of good soles is worth two pairs of upper leathers.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck

May your roof never fall in and your friends never fall out.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fall

He was never good since the time a yard made a coat for him.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about garden, time, good, good luck

There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fishing

It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about time

Listen to the sound of the river and you will catch a trout.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about trap, contentment

It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about measure, commerce, sin

The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about grace, god

Beauty never boiled the pot and ugliness never thickened it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about ugliness, beauty

The miller's pigs are fat but it wasn't all mouter they ate.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The well-filled belly has little understanding of the empty.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

'I see, ' said the blind man when he was directed on his way.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about blind, man

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about old, olderness

He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

A dishonest woman can't be kept in and an honest woman won't.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman