Irish Proverbs

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.

Who gossips with you will gossip of you.

Better good manners than good looks.

Enough is a feast.

May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.

In every land, hardness is in the north of it, softness in the south, industry in the east, and fire and inspiration in the west.

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.

Hunger is good sauce.

It’s better to pay the butcher than the doctor.

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.

A good beginning is half the work.

A man’s mouth often breaks his nose.

A friend’s eye is a good mirror.

An awkward colt often becomes a beautiful horse.

Wide is the door of the little cottage – it is often poor people who are most generous.

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

Beware of the anger of a patient man.

Two people shorten the road.

Every dog is bold in his own doorway.

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Beautiful young people are acts of nature but beautiful old people are works of art.

Don’t become broke by trying to look rich.

God made time, but man made haste.

Sometimes one day changes everything; sometimes years change nothing.

One woman understands another.

May your coffee be strong and your Monday be short.

Praise the child and you praise the mother.

May you never forget what is worth remembering nor ever remember what is best forgotten.

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