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It is better to have part of a man than no man at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

The well fed person doesn't understand the hungry one.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about people

Women are stronger than men, they do not die of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, death, man

Keep your tongue in your jaw and your tow in your pump.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about enemies, home, house

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

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife, world, man

There is no thing wickeder than a woman of evil temper.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about things, woman

Nobody ever bought peace but the man who hadn't got it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about peace, man

There is no virtue in the herb that is not got in time.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about virtue, time

Lions believe that everyone shares their state of mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about state, faith, mind

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

Marry a mountain woman and you will marry the mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman, contentment

A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There is nothing in the world so poor as going to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about hell, world, nothing

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