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A man is often a bad adviser to himself and a good adviser to another.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck, man

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

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

Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

The early riser gets through his business but not through early rising.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about affair

Better for a man to have even a dog welcome him than a dog bark at him.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

There is not a tree in Heaven that is higher than the tree of patience.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about patience

Nature will come through the claws, and the hound will follow the hare.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about nature

When everybody's house is on fire go home and look at your own chimney.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, fire, fire brigade, house

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, contentment

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 about contentment