Irish proverbs

If you have a roving eye, it's no use having the other one fixed on Heaven.

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.

The cat has leave to look at the queen and the queen has leave to shoot it.

A handstaff of holly, a buailtin of hazel,a single sheaf and a clean floor.

You've got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was.

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Two things that go for loss-turf on a mountain and the wisdom of a poor man.

As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.

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

You can take a man out of the bog, but you can't take the bog out of the man.

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