More Irish Proverbs
- A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.
- Age is honorable and youth is noble.
- There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.
- It’s better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money!
- If you’re enough lucky to be Irish… You’re lucky enough!
- From the day you marry your heart will be in your mouth and your hand in your pocket.
- A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
- Better to be a man of character than a man of means.
- There is luck in sharing thing.
- Experience is the comb that life gives a bald man – A man who has lived long enough to lose his hair will no doubt know a thing or two about life.
- A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
- God made time, but man made haste.
- May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside!
- He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you.
- The longest road out is the shortest road home.
- There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.
- He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses faith, loses all.
- May you be at the gates of heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead!
- No time for health today, no health for your time tomorrow.
- The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
- What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
- May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
- There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.
- It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.
- May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without benefit of scratching.
- May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
- The friend that can be bought is not worth buying.