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.

More Irish Proverbs

• Who gossips with you will gossip of you.
• A misty winter brings a pleasant spring, a pleasant winter a misty spring.
• Where the tongue slips it speaks the truth.
• Men are like bagpipes – no sound comes from them until they are full.
• May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty!
• The best things in life are the people we love, the places we have been and the memories we have made along the way.
• A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
• A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.
• Don’t become broke by trying to look rich.
• Every eye forms its own fancy.
• A questioning man is halfway to being wise.
• Better to be fortunate than rich.
• Need teaches a plan.
• Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
• Humour, to a man, is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
• The fox never found a better messenger than himself.
• There is no luck except where there is discipline.
• A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns.
• There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
• You’ve got to do your own growing no matter how tall your father was.
• May neighbours respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and Heaven accept you.
• Idleness is a fool’s desire.
• Never scald your lips with another man’s porridge.
• You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
• A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds, and a word more lasting than the wealth of the world.
• Beware of the anger of a patient man.