Sayings of Irish Origin
A silent mouth is melodious.
Irish Proverb – [Silence]


A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
Irish Proverb – [Debt]


All sins cast long shadows.
Irish Proverb – [Sin]


Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Irish Proverb – [Churches]


Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Irish Proverb – [Quarrels]


Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.
Irish Proverb – [Nationalities and Nationalism]


Every invalid is a physician.
Irish Proverb – [Doctors]


Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverb – [Wisdom]


God likes help when helping people.
Irish Proverb – [Service]


God often pays debts without money.
Irish Proverb – [Debt]


Good luck beats early rising.
Irish Proverb – [Luck]


If you want an audience start a fight.
Irish Proverb – [Publicity]


It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Irish Proverb – [Coward and Cowardice]


It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
Irish Proverb – [Love]


It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
Irish Proverb – [Cooperation]


Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
Irish Proverb – [Wives]


Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Irish Proverb – [Nature]


Strife is better than loneliness.
Irish Proverb – [Loneliness]


The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
Irish Proverb – [Action]


The work praises the man.
Irish Proverb – [Work]

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