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Show IRISH PROVERBS AND) SAYINGS Some Familiar, Some Forgotten, But .All Are Full of Wit. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A cat may look at a king. A chance shot may kill the devil. A chip of the old block. A good beginning is half the work. A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled heavy-heeled daughter. A living dog is better than a dead lion. Always rub your ekirts to some one better than yourself. ....... A mise is as good as a mile. j A fool and his money are soon parted. An Illiterate king is a crowned ass. I A blind man is- no judge of colors. A man without learning and w earing I fine clothes is like a gold ring in a fat ' pi's nose. ; A sage is not always wise. Ac fine a man as you'd meet in a kis'i of brogues. 1 As welcome as the fl -we' s- of May. j A shoemaker's1 v. if.: nnd a smith's mare are always- badly sr.od. I A thorn in mire, a hour-d's tooth and '; , ! a foci's retort are the three sharp-si Y- j things in c-reation. ; j A watched pot n- vr r boils. j t I A wet and windy May inak-s siro!-? , i barns. , j ! A wren in hand is better tl-an a era :', ' I on loan. A bird in th" hand is worth two ..-i j j the bush. I K-ssars can't le ehor, -rs. j Better the end ef a fea.-t than the U - j I ginning of a -fray. Big head, little wit. Cut mv head and g'v-- me a plaster. Catch a weasel asleep. ' 'h"f k by j,-H 1. Cows far off have lonjf horns. D.m'r kee-p a dog and bark your?e!f. D oiald i: Thium-'s brother. Ifiris-i: ' Bran ( Kia-ma -Cool's dog), 'tis Br .:, s brother. Don't put off t'ruCchilTg till the piorni j :s at hanu. j. Don't tie with your tongue what y-ii !' (.ni l loo.-v with your t'-th. i Eat.n bi" id i.i forgotten. ' Ktiten bread us sour. i Everything troubles you. and -the c C. breaks yeur h- art. Fair i'lid .vis-v goes far in a day. ! Far-away in Us loot; green. For want of a nail the Mhoe mm- !"S'. y For want of a shoe the h"i' wac- ! j For want of a man th-- batib- v. .- ! lost. !. Go and kill a Ife.--.sian for yours. :-'. - God never shuts one door but :, 1 opens another. God never nride a month bur h-- iv.-.-l: something to put in it. (bid's h-!: is nearer than th" hold. Going to the goaf's hoilce to : k : ; '. wool. ; Going to law with the d-- i! re! t:,o . j court h"M in hell. Gold i light wi-.h a )'.-,'. Haifa loaf is better t'-.-iu r-o br-.t i. ! Happy the bride th.it sun i-i;i:. on. ! Happy in the corpse that th- ra:u j rains on. ; lie cut a rod to whip hi.-' ..n n lu -k. " He has too many tier's j; ;ir,-. j Ho improver like bad tih in July. j II- it not strong enough t" draw a h. rring off t po c.-a is. ; He is not covetous, but he'd lair, have I ail. I He that is born to be hanu.-d w::; I never be drowne,. j He was looking at somebody ,l.-i,iki:;. j He wojld swear a hole through ... j griddle. j H" in better fed than taunht. J He'd skin a Ilea for its hid-" and tallow. tal-low. If ifs and ands were peU and pan. I Where would be the US.- of tjt.kens? ,j It's an ill bird that soils its own n---r. j If wishes were h'-!'.-:- s bearsars tnUl.t rbe. j If rtrawH were swords I'd have one j by my fide. j Ft'.-i an ill wind that blows nobody 1 good. j It's a long !3ne that h:-s no turn. It's easy to bake with meal at your hand. it's no s--'crf t when it'M knownto three. It wasn't from, the wind he got it. It's to please herself that the cat sirisis her eronan. IC,s- like a ringed cat better than it Look before you leap. Looking for a hound without knowing its color. Make a spoon or spoil a horn. Many a shabby colt made a Tm horse. Make a complaint to no one but a friend. Many a day shall we rest in the grave. Marry in haste and repent at leisure. More holy than godly. More by chance than good luck. My son is my son till he takes a wife; but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her liff. Never look a gift horse jn tho m"uth. Never scald your mouth with an-ther No fool like an old fool. No force, black pig. No one knwi whore the shoe pinches better than he who wears it. No tree but has rotten wood er.oush. to burn it. Once paid, never craved. One magpie is sorrow, two is mirth, three is a wedding and four is a birth. One scabby shetp infects a Hock. One story is good till another is told. "Peace- be with them." as King James said to his hounds. Poverty is no crime: if it were many a one would be hanged. Putting on the miil the tbatch of the kiln. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Right wrongs r.o man. She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mo'-ith. Summer is summer till Michaelmas day; winter is winter till the middle May. That man has an eye in the back of his head. The hurltr on the ditch is the best. That's the lazy man's load. That woman won't sell her hen on a rainy day. The cow dies while the grass is grow, ing. The darkest, hour is before the dawn. The devil could not hjd a- candle- t- him. The foot at rest means nothing. The longest way round is the- shortest way homo. The pig isi on your back. The lamb teaching its dam to bleat. There's nothing sharper than a woman's wo-man's tongue. There neer was an old shoe but there j was an old stocking to match it. j The scanty dish tastes well. ! The smeill was strong enough to j knock down a horst.-. ' Tallaght hill talk. (Boasting.) . Tms won t put much fat on my ribs. ! Time and I against any two. To carry water in a seive. Too much of one thing is good for nothing. Two eyes are better than one. Wash your dirty linen in the house. We brought the summer with us. We never miss the water till the well , runs dry. What can you expect from a pig but ' a grunt. When a man is down, down, with him. What can't be had is just srlwTc is wished for. What the d?vil gives with ono hand he takes wjth the other. What your neighbor gets you never lese. Words are but win-d, but blows are I unkind. You are as stiff as if you had outmeal to sell. You can't have your loaf and eat it. You make fish of on and flesh of another. You might as Well be ishir.t, jigs- to a milestone. Your eyes are bigger than your stomach. stom-ach. The Gael. |