You couldn't make half a football team out of all the Leinster men in Heaven.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about football, man
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Better is the trouble that follows death than the trouble that follows shame.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about shame, death
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about life
A thorn, a hound's tooth, a fool's word: these are the three sharpest things.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about word, things
Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about speed, youth
There never was a scabby sheep in a flock that didn't like to have a comrade.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
There was never a scabby sheep in a flock that didn't like to have a comrade.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
If you have one pair of good soles it is better than two pairs of good uppers.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck
A little of anything isn't worth a pin; but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about common sense, sense
No time for your health today, will result in no health for your time tomorrow.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about time
The seagull thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about air
Don't be hard and don't be soft and don't desert your friend for your own share.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Be kind to those that meet you as you rise, you may pass them again as you fall.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fall
The blacksmith's horse and the cobbler's wife are always the last to have shoes.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife
A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad luck, good luck, home, house, woman
The dog that's always on the go, is better than the one that's always curled up.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
If a rogue deceives me once, shame on him. If he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about shame
Whiskey when you're sick makes you well; whiskey makes you sick when you're well.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
A penny in a poor man's pocket is better than two pennies in a rich man's pocket.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wealth, man
There is more friendship in a half pint of whiskey than in a churn of buttermilk.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about friendship
