Irish Sayings Quotes (39 Quotes)

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

A lock is better than suspicion.

Three diseases without shame Love, itch and thirst.

Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.

But the greatest love - the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother - Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer drunken slob for another.

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool.

It's the first drop that destroys you - there's no harm at all in the last

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

Poor men take to the sea the rich to the mountains

Better one good thing that is than two good things that were

There are many good reasons for drinking, One just entered my head, If a man can not drink when he's living, How in the hell can he drink when he's dead

If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.

Postpone not a good action.

There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied

I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.

When mistrust comes in, love goes out.

Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners

As the big hound is, so will the pup be.

The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard

The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, They're a people of great worth, They keep company with the angels, And bring a bit of heaven here to earth

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray

Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides

A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn the more you shake it, the more sour it grows

Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool

If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.

Count your joys instead of your woes Count your friends instead of your foes.

The day of the storm is not the time for thatching

It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief

It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within

There is no need like the lack of a friend.

Everyone is nice till the cow gets into the garden

The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry

May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.