Irish Proverb Quotes

The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

If you want an audience, start a fight. —IRISH PROVERB

Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.

A cat’s eyes are windows that show us another world’ IRISH PROVERB

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb

Booze makes brothers like no mothers ever do.

May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, The foresight to know where you’re going, And the insight to know when you’re going too far. Irish proverb

May you never forget what is worth remembering, Nor ever remember what is best forgotten. Irish proverb

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine. People live in one another’s shadows. —IRISH PROVERB

May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my grandmother’s teeth. Irish proverb

Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Irish proverb

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

Remember my child, that the darkest hour of all is the hour before the day breaks.” Irish Proverb

Some people come into your life as blessings, and others come in your life as lessons. You are both to me.

There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be!

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Old Irish proverb

There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.--Irish Proverb

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood

Firelight will not let you read fine stories, but it's warm, and you won't see the dust on the floor." - Irish Saying

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

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

Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes." - Irish Saying

If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself." - Irish Proverb

Aithníonn ciaróg, ciaróg eile," he says. "It's an Irish proverb. Roughly translated, it means, One beetle recognizes another.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ” —IRISH PROVERB

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes... That's the Irish for you!" - Irish Sayings

The house of the planter is known by the trees.

First the man takes the drink, then the drink takes the man.

Maybe it's bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us." - Nancy O'Keeefe

The greatest and the most oppressive empire on earth is the Anglo-American empire. By that is meant the British Empire, of which the United States of America forms a part. It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations. This fact particularly applies to the cities of London and New York, the stronghold of Big Business. This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the city of New York which says: 'The Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it, and the Americans pay the bills.

God made the Italians for their beauty. The French for fine food. The Swedes for intelligence. The Jews for religion. And on and on until He looked at what He had created and said, "This is all very fine but no one is having fun. I guess I'll have to make me an Irishman." - Anonymous

Strife is better than loneliness.” — Irish proverb

There's nothing so bad that it couldn't be worse." - Irish Proverb

The truth from a liar is not to be believed. —Irish proverb

The longest road out is the shortest road home” - Irish Proverb

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be looking for it all day.

Your feet will bring you where your heart is

1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal. Irish saying There’s no denying the fact that my grandpa Aengus shaped the way I look at life. The man had a saying for everything. If I fell and scraped my knee, he mended it with an Irish proverb: “For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile.” If I woke up with a head cold, he had an Irish

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

Better to be a coward for a day, than to be dead for the rest of your life!

It is not a secret if it is known by three people

The Irish proverb quoted at the beginning — "If you see a two-headed pig, keep your mouth shut" — contains profound pragmatic wisdom. Maybe most people are shrewd enough to understand that, and the reports that get into books like this are a small, very small, cross-section of the Chaos that is actually going on around us. Maybe.

May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don’t love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming." - Irish Saying

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch." - Irish Proverb

You never miss the water till the well has run dry." - Irish Proverb     "You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind." - Irish Proverb

Anna answered with the Irish proverb she heard from her own mother’s lips more times than she could count. “A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

When I first came to Corca Dhuibhne I heard a proverb that means 'enough is plenty.' I wrote it down then because of its concise use of Irish and, if I thought about its meaning at all, I assumed it applied to food and drink. Now I think it applies to all the appetites, including our appetite for work and for personal challenge. Too much or too little of anything means lack of balance. The Celts believed that the health of each individual affects the health of the universe. I don't know if that's true. But I do know that the essence of health is balance. And I think the route to finding it is awareness in stillness.