“Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children make a home.”

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

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.

Lie down with dogs and you’ll rise with fleas.

If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next.

Beautiful young people are acts of nature but beautiful old people are works of art.

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.