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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverb, Irish
Coward and Cowardice

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
Proverb, Irish
Cooperation

God often pays debts without money.
Proverb, Irish
Debt

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
Proverb, Irish
Debt

Every invalid is a physician.
Proverb, Irish
Doctors

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Proverb, Irish
Churches

When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Proverb, Irish
Maturity

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Proverb, Irish
Nature

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Proverb, Irish
Memory

Strife is better than loneliness.
Proverb, Irish
Loneliness

Good luck beats early rising.
Proverb, Irish
Luck

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
Proverb, Irish
Love

Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.
Proverb, Irish
Nationalities and Nationalism

God likes help when helping people.
Proverb, Irish
Service

A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish
Silence

If you want an audience start a fight.
Proverb, Irish
Publicity

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Proverb, Irish
Quarrels

All sins cast long shadows.
Proverb, Irish
Sin

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
Proverb, Irish
Sea

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
Proverb, Irish
Alcohol and Alcoholism

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.
Proverb, Irish
Age and Aging

The person who doesn t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
Proverb, Irish
Action

The work praises the man.
Proverb, Irish
Work

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
Proverb, Irish
Wives

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Proverb, Irish
Wisdom