Irish Proverbs Quotations

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll go on a gallop.

Often a cow does not take after its breed.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.

A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.

A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.

Its a bad hen that won't scratch herself.

Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail.

It's beter than the loan you couldn't get.

A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel,a single sheaf and a clean floor.