There are two versions to a story and twelve arrangements to a song.
Seven fat weeks from Samhain to Christmas.
Whoever will bring a story to you will take two stories from you.
Travellers have tales to tell.
When the cat is outside, the mouse does be dancing.
Going to the law with the devil and the court is in hell.
When the cat is outside, the mouse does be dancing.
God with us and a drink, and may I never be poor.
The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground.
God is strong and He has a good mother.
God never closed one door without opening another.
The help of God is closer than the door.
Ignorance is a heavy burden.
You must live with a person to know a person.
Time is a good storyteller.
The three best friends and the three worst enemies:
fire, wind, and water.
What pains the heart must be washed away with tears.
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
The darkest part of the year, from Christmas until the Feast of St. Bridgit.
Heredity breaks out in the eyes of the cat.
Rain to the calf and sun to the foal; water to the goose and alms to the beggar(man).
A nettle burns (stings) me. Dock will cure me.
A windy day is not a day for thatching.
An ebb(tide) does not wait for a slow man.
A good word never broke a tooth.
A good name is better than riches.
The treachery returns to the betrayer.
Don't be too small and don't be too big with the clergy.
[At the] end of every gospel [is] a collection.
'Tis three months from the Feast of St. Michael to Christmas.
He could sell a priest a pig (and the parish clerk a piglet).
Food and drink for Christmas; new clothes for Easter.
There is no nation without a language.
Broken Irish is better than clever English.
There is no nation without a language.
Seldom is Spring without cold.
The day of rain is not the day of children.
There is a lot of weather in a March day.
Frost is bad weather,[but] frost is better than snow, and snow is better than eternal rain.
Practice makes mastery.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
The heaviest load [is] on the gentlest horse.
You'll never plough a field turning it over in your mind.
The slender little end is the smallest part of anything.
The sandpiper can not attend to the two beaches (ebb-tides).
A moving leg gets something.
A penny gets another penny.
The tiredness leaves but the profit remains.
There is no strength without unity.
The work praises the man.
Lie with the lamb, and rise with the bird.
There is no prosperity unless there is discipline.
Strike the hot iron.
Work is better than talk.
Every beginning is weak.