Quote Me On It... Quotes
Irish
Proverbs
?A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
?Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.
?There is often the look of an angel on the Devil himself.
?May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
?It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
?Distant hills look green.
?Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
?There tends to be a black sheep (even) in the whitest flock.
?Ev'ryone is wise till he speaks.
?Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
?There is no wise man without fault.
?The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
?The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.
?The world would not make a race horse out of an ass (donkey).
?The beginning and end of one's life is to draw closer to the fire.
?The hole is more honorable than the patch.
?The treachery returns to the betrayer.
?There are two tellings to ev'ry story.
?The light heart lives long.
?Every terrier is bold in the doorway of its own house.
?The heaviest ear of grain bends its head the lowest.
?The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
?Time is a good storyteller.
?The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.
?It is often that a person's mouth broke his nose.
?It is often that a person's tongue cut his throat.
?Praise the ripe field, not the green corn.
?The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
?A watched kettle never boils.
?There's no worth to a story without an author.
?The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
?It is not a secret if it is known to three people
?The work praises the man.
?The tiredness leaves but the profit remains.
?A friend's eye is a good mirror.
?The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.
?An empty sack does not stand.
?Let your bargain suit your purpose.
?There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
?A penny gets another penny
?Even a small thorn causes festering.
?Pride comes before a fall.
?There is no luck except where there is discipline.
?Make the fence or you will pay the plundering.
?What fills the eye fills the heart.
?The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.
?Don't interfere with (any) thing that doesn't concern you.
?There is no strength without unity.
?A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
?Two people see a thing that an individual does not see.
?Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
?The longest road out is the shortest road home.
?Your son is your son today, but your daughter is your daughter forever.
?Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
?Food is a good workhorse.
?Praise the child and you praise the mother.
?Ev'ry patient is a doctor after his cure
?Two shorten the road.
?If you do not sew in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn.
?A little kinship is better than a lot of charity.
?Two thirds of the work is the semblance.
?Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat.
?A hen is heavy when carried far.
?Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
?(Both) your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
?Patience is a poultice for all wounds.
?When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is
weak.
?Hoping to recoup ruins the gambler.
?A lock is better than suspicion.
?There is no need like the lack of a friend.
?When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
?The thief is no threat to the beggar(man).
?A silent mouth is melodious.
?It's for her own good that the cat purrs.
?When the apple is ripe it will fall.
?There is no luck except where there is discipline.
?A word is more enduring than worldy wealth.
?When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.
?Its no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
?A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
?Every tide has an ebb save the tide of graces.
?The help of God is closer than the door.
?Soft words butter no parsnips but they won't harden the heart of a cabbage
either.
?When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.
?Age is honorable and youth is noble.
?When the cat is outside, the mouse does be dancing.
?The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
?Wine divulges truth.
?Broken Irish is better than cleverEnglish.
?The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
?As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
?Need teaches a plan.
?You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
?Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
?Necessity knows no law.
?A windy day is not a day for thatching.
?Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.
?Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
?It is a long road that has no turning.
?There is no nation without a language.
?You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather
was.
?He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you.
?It's no use boiling your cabbage twice
?A light heart lives long.
?He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
?Have a mouth of ivy and a heart of holly.
?Your feet will bring you where your heart is.
?If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
?Face the sun, but turn your back to the storm.
?The three sharpest things in the world: a thorn in the mud, a hemp rope,
a fool's word.
?A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea
?Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
?There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down
?It is better to exist unknown to the law.
?A ship often sank beside the harbour
?Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord, and it makes you miss him.
?It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
?As the old cock crows so the young cock learns.
?God's help is nearer than the door
?The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
?It is the good horse that draws its own cart
?He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.
?A silent mouth is sweet to hear
?Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuffbox.
?It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
?An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
?Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool
?It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and
down a while.
?You'll not find a thrush in a hawk's nest
?You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind
?Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
?Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.
?What butter and whiskey will not cure there's no cure for
?Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
?Firelight will not let you to read fine stories but it will warm you
and you won't see the dust on the floor.
