IRISH MANKIND
MANKIND
Marriages are all happy its having breakfast together that causes all the
trouble.
Take gifts with a sigh most men give to be paid
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.
The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
Any man can lose his hat in a fairy- wind.
It's as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.
He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.
Men are like bagpipes no sound comes from them until they're full.
He got it from nature as the pig got the rooting in the ground.
A king's son is not nobler than his food.
Nobody ever bought peace but the man who hadn't got it.
To the fighting man peace is sure.
An eye is blind in another man's corner.
He's more to be pitied than laughed at.
Many defect is seen in the poor man.
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
A little pleases a poor man.
Poor men take to the sea; the rich to the mountains.
Pity the man who does wrong and is poor as well.
When a man gets his feet in lime he cannot easily get rid of it.
No dealing with a revengeful man.
He was never good since the time a yard(of cloth) made a coat for him.
Don't mention him and a decent man in the one day.
Woe to the man that entrusts his secrets to a ditch.
A man may be his own ruin.
A man has often cut a rod to beat himself.
His own wound is what everyone feels soonest.
He who is best for me is he who shall get the best share.
The man who was dividing Ireland didn't leave himself last.
A man is shy in another man's corner.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Better sit beside him than in his place.
It's often a man's mouth broke his nose.
The waiting man thinks the time long.
He who spies is the one who kills.
Never trust a spiteful man.
He knows how many grains to a bushel of wheat.
He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
He couldn't drag a herring off the coals.
A shamefaced man seldom acquires wealth.
Sweet is the voice of the man who has wealth.
A hut is a palace to a poor man.
There's no wise man without a fault.
He may die of wind but he'll never die of wisdom.
A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults.
Women are stronger than men, they do not die of wisdom.
