Irish Sayings
Irish Sayings
advice cherries fools pigs scholars-and-scholarship
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools
advice cherries fool neither nor pigs
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool
fool fools-and-foolishness
There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense
applied fire stone
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
speaks tongue truth
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
friends-or-friendship lack
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
caught fish sea
There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught
death ireland life wet
Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland
girl marry mountain proverbs
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
dead doctor patient time
It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead
easy landlord steal thief
It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief
craft destroys learn learning
It destroys the craft not to learn it
easy potato proverbs
It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
gossip gossips
Who gossips with you will gossip of you