Search in folklore: prove, page 1168

43576 results

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

Speak to the devil and you'll hear the clatter of his hooves.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about devil, contentment

Only those who were born to hang are not afraid of the water.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about water

The pig in the sty doesn't know the pig going along the road.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about enemies, man

Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.

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

Keep a thing seven years and you'll always find a use for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about use, things, contentment

The day of the storm is not the time for thatching your roof.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about time, day

The bird that can sing and won't sing should be made to sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

If there is a way into the wood there is also a way out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There are as many good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

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