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| Margaret's Pages - Irish folk wisdom, proverbs and pictures |
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| Fisherman's Cottage, Keem Bay, Mayo |
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| Curragh |
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| Sheep at sunset, Achill Island, Mayo |
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| Stream, Co Kerry, Ireland |
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| Glendalough, Ireland |
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| Co Donegal |
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| Here you will find some wise words and advice from old Irish proverbs and sayings. I have included some wonderful Irish scenery as well. |
| Melodious is the closed mouth |
| A man lives long in his native place |
| The well-fed does not understand the lean |
| It is not a secret if it is known to three people |
| A friend's eye is a good mirror |
| A light heart lives long |
| When wrathful words arise a closed mouth is soothing |
| It takes time to build castles |
| Every finger has not the same length, nor every son the same disposition |
| The peacemaker is never in the way |
| Idleness is a fool's desire |
| It is not the same to go to the king's house as to come from it |
| What fills the eye fills the heart |
| Time is a great storyteller |
| The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom |
| The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches |
| A foot at rest means nothing |
| Everyone feels his own wound first |
| You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel |
| A light heart lives long |
| A turkey never voted for an early Christmas |
| It is a long road that has not turning |
| If you buy what you do not need you might have to sell what you do |
| A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it is a cat |
| The hen has ruffled feathers until she rears her brood |
| Many a sudden change takes place on an unlikely day |
| Page made 29 August 2001 updated 12 February 2004 |
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