Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door

Every patient is a doctor - after his cure

"The Windy day is not a day for scallops (thatching)"

"People live in each other's shelter"

"The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey"

"You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail," "and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner."

"There is no strength without unity."

"You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me."

"Praise the young and they will blossom"

"The raggy colt often made a powerful horse."

"Age is honorable and youth is noble."

"Youth does not mind where it sets its foot."

"Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die."

"The well fed does not understand the lean."

"He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you"

"Quiet people are well able to look after themselves."

"A friends eye is a good mirror."

"It is the good horse that draws its own cart."

"A lock is better than suspicion."

"Two thirds of the work is the semblance."

"He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday."

"If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn."

"Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat."

"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout."

"A persons heart is in his feet."

"It is a long road that has no turning."

"Necessity knows no law."

"The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches."

"There is no luck except where there is discipline."

"The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot."

"The light heart lives long."

True greatness knows gentleness.

When wrathful words arise a closed mouth is soothing.

Blind should be the eyes in the abode of another.

A man with loud talk makes truth itself seem folly.

The lake is not encumbered by the swan; nor the steed by the bridle; nor the sheep by the wool; nor the man by the soul that is in him.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

When the apple is ripe it will fall.

Give your love to your wife and your secret to your mother.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Many an irish property was increased by the lace of a daughters petticoat

The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig

Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him

Marry a woman from the mountain, and you'll marry the mountain.

It's better to solve the problem than to improve the law.

The thing that is closest to the heart, is closest to the mouth.

Don't bring your troubles to the person who hasn't got sympathy for your case

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood

Take gifts with a sigh , most men give to be paid

A country without a language is a country without a soul

The person that isn't strong, has to be clever