The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship under sail, and a woman after the birth of a child.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Garden
Two people shorten a road.
—Irish Proverb
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
—Irish Proverb
If one sheep puts its head through the gap the rest will follow.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Rest, Follow, Will
Good luck beats early rising.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Luck
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Quarrels, Fighting, Fight
Twenty years a child; 20 years running wild; 20 years a mature man—and after that, praying.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Aging
Marriages are all happy. It’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Togetherness, Marriage
One rotten apple rots a bagful.
—Irish Proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping, Sleep, Book, Good, Health, Best, Laughter
Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
—Irish Proverb
Hope is the physician of each misery.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Hope
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Marriage, Girls, Wives
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Cooperation, Help
A dog with two homes is never any good
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Dogs
It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Love
A waster of water is a waster of better.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: One liners, Water
God likes help when helping people.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Helping, Proverbs, Service
Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Nationality, Fighting, Nationalism, Nationalities, Nation
A scholar’s ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Heroes, Proverbs
Praise the young and they will flourish.
—Irish Proverb
Strife is better than loneliness.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Loneliness
The only cure for love is marriage.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Marriage
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Self-reliance, Confidence, Fathers, Growth
Laughter is brightest where food is best.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Food
It is not the big mansion that makes the happy home.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Happy
A person’s heart is in his feet.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Heart
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind always be at your back
May the sunshine warm upon your face
The rains falls soft upon your fields and until we meet again
May GOD hold you in the palm of his hand.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Encouragement
God made time, but man made haste.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Haste
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
—Irish Proverb
Topics: Nature