Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught
When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray
Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes... That's the Irish for you!
May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
Nodding the head does not row the boat
Nature will come through the claws, and the hound will follow the hare
Never buy through your ears but through your eyes
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool
Poor men take to the sea; the rich to the mountains
But the greatest love - the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother - Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer drunken slob for another
He who can follow his own will is a king
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense
It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead
It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief
Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
It destroys the craft not to learn it
It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
Who gossips with you will gossip of you
Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
When God made time, he made plenty of it
There are many good reasons for drinking, One just entered my head, If a man can not drink when he's living, How in the hell can he drink when he's dead
Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar
When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest
There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied
There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience
What is nearest the heart is nearest the mouth
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within
Better one good thing that is than two good things that were
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
As the old cock crows the young cock learns
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools
Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.
Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door
Fear is a fine spur, so is rage
The thief is no danger to the beggar
Praise the ripe field not the green corn
Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat
Put a beggar on horseback and he'll gallop
A dog with two homes is never any good
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune
Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind
A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn; the more you shake it, the more sour it grows
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners
A sly rogue is often in good dress
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
You must empty a box before you fill it again
A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.
A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle
Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool
It's the first drop that destroys you - there's no harm at all in the last
It's for her own good that the cat purrs
Everyone is nice till the cow gets into the garden
The best horse doesn't always win the race
It's no delay to stop to edge the tool
The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, They're a people of great worth, They keep company with the angels, And bring a bit of heaven here to earth
If you dig a grave for others you may fall into it yourself
If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.
If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next
Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides
If God shuts one door, He opens another
I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.
The herb that can't be got is the one that heals
A good retreat is better than a bad stand
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry
The day of the storm is not the time for thatching
The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard
The longest road out is the shortest road home