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Béarla
 
A person best knows where the shoe troubles him
 
It takes one to know one
 
It is in hardship that a friend is recognised
 
The knot nearest the throat is the the one to release first
 
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
 
The herb that can't be found is the very one which works
 
What the child sees the child does
 
What the ghost writes, the ghost reads
 
What goes on for a long time loses its attractiveness
 
What's seldom is wonderful
 
The very thing a person dreads most in the world could be the best thing for him
 
What can't be cured must be endured
 
The impossible cannot be done
 
The lamb teaching its mother how to bleat
 
When the rod hardens with age it's difficult to bend it
 
The man who has a loaf will get a knife to cut it
 
The one who is out, his share gets cold
 
Travellers have tales
 
When you're up, they drink to you
 
When you're down, they kick you
 
The person who gains the reputation of getting up early can sleep late
 
He who is lucky in the morning tends to be luck in the evening too
 
He who is not strong has to be clever
 
He who does not get a grip on the job, the job gets a grip on him
 
Whoever will not accept advice must accept strife
 
He who does not sympathise with your plight, don't make your complaint to him
 
The cat purrs to please itself
 
People live in one another's shadow
 
A little gathers to a lot
 
Patience is the best thing for an incurable situation
 
Everyone to his own tastes
 
It's the life of a language to speak it
 
Power will have another day
 
One year with you, one against you
 
Observe the river before you venture into its currents
 
Nature breaks out through the eyes of the cat
 
Faraway cows have long horns
 
Truth is often bitter
 
A little of anything is tasty
 
The neighbours gruel tastes sweet
 
Even the whitest flock has a black sheep
 
The man who has lost the match has permission to talk
 
There are two sides to every story
 
Every beginning is weak
 
There is hope of coming back from the sea but none of coming back from the dead
 
Like father like son
 
Mór has a servant girl while she herself is out begging
 
The lamb becomes a big heavy sheep over distance
 
I saw you before, as the cat said to the warm milk...
 
Sense and nonsense - two which do not go together
 
Put the trout in the net before you put it in the pot
 
Put silk on a goat, it's still a goat
 
God helps those who help themselves
 
The door to wisdom is to ask questions
 
However bad Séamas is it would be worse to be without him
 
However long the day, night comes
 
If it was fine till Halloween someone would be unhappy
 
Ireland divided is Ireland laid low
 
Listen to the sound of the river and you will catch a trout
 
The cows owner must go under her tail
 
Small shards suit as well as big stones for building walls
 
The evil deed returns to the evildoer
 
Every pupil is as he is trained
 
Thirst is a shameless disease
 
Two people shorten the road
 
A wise man accepts advice
 
It's at the beginning of the disease it is easiest to cure
 
It's at the beginning of the bag that one must be economical
 
Rome wasn't built in a day
 
Tiredness goes away and the benefit remains
 
Familiarity breeds contempt
 
Life is strange
 
A person is alive after being beaten but not after his good name is taken
 
Sweet to hear is a mouth which is silent
 
Youth is a fine thing but it does not come twice
 
Birds of a feather flock together
 
A shiftless person is the same as a pig
 
It's hard to put a wise head on young shoulders
 
It's hard to choose between two evils
 
Every dog is bold in his own doorway
 
The crazy man reckons he is the sensible one
 
It's a long road that has no turning
 
The trail of a bad deed goes a long way
 
Better to be idle than up to no good
 
Arguing is better than loneliness
 
Health is better than wealth
 
A little relationship is better than a lot of charity
 
Better a friend in court than a pound in the purse
 
Better late than never
 
Half is better than nothing (literally - decaying)
 
A fistful of a trade is better than a bagful of gold
 
Better to have a son mad for sport than mad for drink
 
Better to ride on a goat than the finest walking
 
A good run is better than a bad stand
 
Better to look forward to prison than to the grave
 
Better one look before you than two behind
 
It's easy to knead next to the mill
 
God's help is nearer than the door
 
Every novelty is great and every commonplace is bitter
 
The black raven thinks its own offspring is bright
 
A change of work is as good as a rest
 
Faraway hills are green
 
It's the quiet pigs who eat the meal.
 
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
 
Life goes through many twists and turns
 
A nod is enough to the wise
 
All anyone can do is his best
 
Every patient is a surgeon after he is cured
 
It takes very little to cause trouble
 
Woe to he who checks out what he hopes to be true
 
Woe to the one who does evil and does not profit by it
 
A friend's eye is a good mirror
 
Time will tell
 
Hunger is a good sauce
 
The hurler on the ditch is a great fellow
 
God himself likes a bit of help
 
A shoulder without a friend is undefended
 
It's often a person's mouth broke his nose
 
It's often a slow hound was content
 
It's often a tailor promised to come and did not
 
The quiet ones are often guilty
 
Patience is worth a lot
 
It's a poor hen won't scratch for itself
 
It's an ill wind blows nobody any good
 
The flagstone is slippery at the door of a decent man
 
Nature is stronger than training
 
A small burden grows heavier with distance
 
First a drink, then your news
 
Sense bought dearly is the best kind
 
It is the heaviest ear of corn which bows its head lowest
 
Live horse and you will get hay
 
The branch lives on the fence but not the hand that planted it
 
Light heart lives long
 
Can't live with it, can't live without it
 
A child wants everything he sees
 
Praise youth and youth will respond
 
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
 
If you don't sow in Spring you won't reap in Autumn
 
Even if you have only a puck goat to sell be in the middle of the fair with it
 
Be it crooked or straight, it's the main road is the shortest way
 
If you want to be praised, die; if you want to be criticized, marry
 
If it's bad on the flat it's worse at the summit
 
Necessity teaches resourcefulness
 
If you don't learn your trade, it becomes your enemy
 
When your hand is in the hound's mouth withdraw it gently
 
When the cat's away the mice dance
 
When it's tough for the hag she has to run
 
When the food is scarce it's generous to share it
 
Mind your own business
 
Don't procrastinate
 
Don't make a custom and don't break a custom
 
Hear both sides before judgement
 
Words alone won't feed the brothers
 
Familiarity breeds contempt
 
No success without discipline
 
A shy man won't be rich
 
Nothing lasts for ever
 
The strong don't prevail for ever
 
Don't count your fish till it's landed
 
The world won't make a racehorse out of a donkey
 
Thinking will not do the ploughing for you
 
A closed hand gets nothing but a closed fist
 
No point in talking when the damage is done
 
It's not a feast without a roast and true suffering comes with marriage
 
You can't whistle and eat meal at the same time
 
You can't be two places at once
 
You can't have it both ways
 
You want to know me, come live with me
 
There is no lack so bad as the lack of a friend
 
The windy day is not the day for thatching
 
It's not the same thing to go to the king's house and to come out of it
 
People are not more numerous than opinions
 
There are not more countries than there are customs
 
Things aren't always what they seem
 
You won't fool the fox a second time
 
There is no strength like co-operation
 
The goose's beak is no longer than the gander's
 
Sense does not come before age
 
Necessity overrides the law
 
The lake is not heavier for having the duck on it
 
No place like home
 
There is no cure for regret but to kill it with patience
 
There is no herb or cure for death
 
There is no wise man without a fault nor any fool without a good feature
 
There is no spirit nor ghost doesn't know his own business
 
There is no flood, however great, that does not ebb away
 
There is neither low not high but down for a while and up for a while.
 
A good word never broke a tooth
 
The man of courage never lost it
 
A blessing never filled a belly
 
Marry a woman from the mountain and you will marry the entire mountain
 
A crazy man runs through a flood boldly, but it's often a flood swept a crazy man away
 
A bird flies out of every flock
 
An eye disregards what it does not see
 
Silk on Siobhán and her father in rags
 
Hoping to beats the odds is what ruins the gambler
 
Give a choice to the buffoon and it's the worst he will pick
 
No grace comes singly
 
Practice makes perfect
 
Hindsight is a great thing
 
One story leads on to another
 
The beginning of health is sleep; the end of health is a sigh
 
Like understands like
 
A country without a language is a country without a soul
 
A good start is half the work