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Irish Sayings |
As Hairy as a puck-goats head
As thieving as a fox's snout
Beauty won't make the pot boil
May you live and wear it
Go bhfana í ngrá linn - May those who love us...
May you have heath to wear it
May luck be to the married couple
May the face of every good news and the back
of every bad news be towards us
As wise as the women of Mungret
As hard as the hob of hell
As cunning as the fox
As deep as the sea
As bashful as a girl
As slow as a late dinner
As dull as ditch water
As swift as a hare
As true as the gospel
As brave as Fionn MacCumhall
As yellow as a ragweed
As lazy as a donkey
As lazy as a piper's luidin
As cunning as the fox
As long as a wet Sunday
It's hard to teach an old dog to dance.
As the cock crows, the young bird chirps
To be old and decayed dishonors no-one
In youth we have our troubles before us;
in age we leave pleasure behind.
As busy as a bee
As salty as the sea
As good as gold
As rich as Damer
As old as the hills
As bald as a buailtin
As slow as a late dinner
As dull as ditch water
As swift as a hare
As true as the gospel
As bitter as thick milk
As crooked as ram's horn
As brown as a berry
Like the sun on the hill-top, but like a thistle on the hearth.
Street angel, house devil.
When the twig hardens, it's difficult to twist it.
A man lives long in his native place.
As tough as a wheel string.
As mim as a dog without his tail.
As black as Toal's cloak
As bad as Barrington's blood hound to us
A black hen lays white eggs.
A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
Nobility listens to art
As stiff as a poker
Old burdens don't incite blows.
Red-hot ashes are easily rekindled.
No wrong to be done to seven classes of persons
excited to anger- a bard, a
chief, a woman,
a prisoner, a drunken person, a druid,
and a king in his own
dominions.
An inch is a great deal in a man's nose.
It's not the bones that are beautiful but the flesh on the shoulders.
A thong is no shorter for having been in water.
Its appearances are better than its value.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Young people don't know what age is;
old people forget what youth was.
The old man hasn't the place of the cat in the ashes.
Is it not a lonesome thing to be getting old.
There's anger in an open laugh.
It's no use going to the goat's house to look for wool
It's hard to fight with the wide ocean
An empty bag won't stand
Tis hard to drive a hare out of a bush he's not in
You can't draw blood out of a turnip
You won't make a rope from the sand of the sea
It's only the Lord can make a racehorse out of a jackass
The devil couldn't do it unless he was drunk
Tis no use talking when the harm is done
It is the hope of recompense that ruins the card player.
Better a son of a gambler than a drinker
The expectation of success is what beggars the gambler
Crafty advice is often got from a fool
A wise man takes advice
A ring on her finger and not a stitch of clothes on her back.
Sparing at home and lavish in the hospital
Take gifts with a sigh most men give to be paid
O'Neills gift and his two eyes looking after it
It is worth going to meet generosity that is slow
A gentle answer quenches anger
God moves slowly yet his grace comes
God never closes one door but he opens another
God shares the good things
The person not taught by God is not taught by man
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth
God's help is nearer than the door
God is not as severe as he is said to be
God often pays debts without money
The love of God guides every good
Man talks but God directs
God helps him that helps himself
The will of God yesterday today and forever
A good thing is improved by increasing it
Good begets good
A whisper in Nora's ear is louder than a shout from the highest hill
A woman told me that a woman told her that she saw a woman who saw a woman who made ale of potatoes
The good is never late
Everything good is used in little pieces
Beauty is only skin deep
Beauty suffers no pain
It's the jewel that can't be got that is the most beautiful
The man without eyes is no judge of beauty
A good laugh and a long sleep the best cures in a doctor's book
Sickness is the physician's feast
The beginning of a ship is a board of a kiln a stone, of a king's reign salutation, and the beginning of health is sleep
A long disease doesn't tell a lie, it kills at last
A man is often a bad adviser to himself and a good adviser to another.
The man who won't have advice will have conflict.
He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice
The cat is his own best adviser
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