Gaeilge
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
