A small benefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.
More Irish Proverbs:
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.Irish
The windy day is not a day for scallops [thatching].
Irish
The covetous person is always in want.
Irish
May you have a bright future -- as the chimney sweep said to his son.
Irish
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.
Irish
God often pays debts without money.
Irish