May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.

More Irish Proverbs

• 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.
• A good word never broke a tooth.
• Two people shorten the road.
• May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
• What butter and whiskey won’t cure, there is no cure for.
• Beautiful young people are acts of nature but beautiful old people are works of art.
• If you buy what you don’t need, you might have to sell what you do.
• A face without freckles is like a sky without stars.
• Here’s to me, and here’s to you. And here’s to love and laughter. I’ll be true as long as you. And not one moment after.
• May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, and never catch up.
• However long the day, the evening will come.
• If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next.
• Soft words butter no parsnips but they won’t harden the heart of the cabbage either.