Irish Proverb Quotes

Sayings of Irish Origin
quotes
25
topics
12
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“The work praises the man.”
Work
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“All sins cast long shadows.”
Sin
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“A silent mouth is melodious.”
Silence
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“Every invalid is a physician.”
Doctors
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“Good luck beats early rising.”
Luck
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“Strife is better than loneliness.”
Loneliness
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“Everyone is wise until he speaks.”
Wisdom
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“God often pays debts without money.”
Debt
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“God likes help when helping people.”
Service
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“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
Maturity
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“Better be quarrelling than lonesome.”
Quarrels
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“If you want an audience start a fight.”
Publicity
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“Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.”
Nature
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“Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.”
Churches
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“It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.”
Love
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“There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.”
Sea
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“Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.”
Wives
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“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.”
Cooperation
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“A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.”
Debt
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“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs”
Action
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“When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.”
Memory
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“It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
Coward and Cowardice
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“Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.”
Age and Aging
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“Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.”
Nationalities and Nationalism
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