Irish Proverb
Irish Proverb
master slave words
Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.
class lower matter
It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.
eat pigs quiet
It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
fine nobody proverbs wake
Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.
build built rome takes time
It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day.
built rounded unless wall
and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.
found god grace saddle
The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground.
fully sailed sailor unless
You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,
dry until value water
We do not know the value of water until we go dry
man mature running twenty
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man /and after that, praying.
learned properly trade
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
donkey
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey
best knows shoe
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
drinking sorrow thirst
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.