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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about love

Never praise your son-in-law until the year is out.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about praise, law

It is not the big farmers who reap all the harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Not even an angel can fulfill two missions at once.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about angels

When the old woman is hard pressed, she has to run.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman, old, olderness

There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense

A loud voice can make even the truth sound foolish.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about voice, truth

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about advice

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about blood

There's as many good horses in carts as in coaches.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck

If you put a silk suit on a goat it is still a goat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

A postponement till morning A postponement for ever.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There is no pain greater than the pain of rejection.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about pain

The windy day is not a day for scallops [thatching].

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about day

A story without an author is not worth listening to.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

You didn't turn up when sense was being distributed.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense, being, contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife, world, man

Everyone is nice until the cow gets into the garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about garden

A swan would die with pride only for its black feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about proudness, magic, death

Put a coward to his metal an' he'll fight the de'il.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fight