“A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.”

Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!

Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.

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

If you buy what you don’t need, you might have to sell what you do.

The friend that can be bought is not worth buying.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

The longest road out is the shortest road home.

There is luck in sharing thing.

There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

If you are enough lucky to be Irish, you are lucky enough!

Slow is every foot on an unknown path.

Beware of the anger of a patient man.

Every patient is a doctor after his cure.

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.

A misty winter brings a pleasant spring, a pleasant winter a misty spring.

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.