| IRISH PROVERBS Beauty won't make the kettle boil. Honey is sweet, but don’t lick it off a briar. Better good manners than good looks. It is more difficult to maintain honor than to become prosperous. Forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid. A man may live after losing his life but not after losing his honor. Better to be a man of character than a man of means. Better the trouble that follows death than the trouble that follows shame. If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next. Who gossips with you will gossip of you. Lie down with dogs and you’ll rise with fleas. You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. You won’t learn to swim on the kitchen floor. Slow is every foot on an unknown path. There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught. If your messenger is slow, go to meet him. Many a sudden change takes place on an unlikely day. Enough and no waste is as good as a feast. Cut your coat according to your cloth. He who has water and peat on his own farm has the world his own way. If you buy what you don’t need you might have to sell what you do. Hunger is a good sauce. Who keeps his tongue keeps his friends. You never miss the water till the well runs dry. Everyone feels his own wound first. Pity him who makes an opinion a certainty. No two people ever lit a fire without disagreeing. Seeing is believing, but feeling is the God’s own truth. The person bringing good news knocks boldly on the door. There’s no point in keeping a dog if you are going to do your own barking. A heavy purse makes a light heart. | 
