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Any fool carries an umbrella on a wet day, but the wise man carries it every day.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about day, man

Food is no more important than wisdom, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, beginning, food, fear, god

Marriages are all happy its having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about happiness

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about future, past, day

You can keep away from the rogue, but you cannot keep yourself safe from the liar.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

You're not as young as you used to be, but you're not as old as you're going to be.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about old, olderness

It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house, bad luck, bad, man

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife, mother, man

May you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Marriages are all happy. It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about happiness

As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad, life

Soft words butter no parsnips, but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heart

A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Wherever there are women there's talking, and wherever there's geese there's cackling.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about talking

A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, Truth is great and will win out.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about truth, man

Red sky at night is a shepherds delight, red sky in the morning is a shepherds warning.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sky, night

A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about mother

The English always credit the rest of us with the qualities they don't need themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about need

Don't say everything you want to say lest you hear something you would not like to hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Your son is your son until he marries, but your daughter is your daughter until you die.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish