| IRISH PROVERBS The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey. There is no luck except where there is discipline. There is no strength without unity. Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness. Two shorten the road. Two thirds of the work is the semblance. When the apple is ripe it will fall. Wine divulges truth. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me. It’s not a delay to stop and sharpen the scythe. It’s a dirty bird that won’t keep its own nest clean. Keep your shop and your shop will keep you. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. Lose an hour in the morning and you’ll be looking for it all day. Laziness is a heavy burden. Poverty waits at the gates of idleness. Praise the ripe field not the green corn. Young people don’t know what old age is, and old people forget what youth was.
The schoolhouse bell sounds bitter in youth and sweet in old age. The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune. As the old cock crows, the young cock learns. It's easy to halve the potato where there's love. If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry. | 
