“The work praises the man.”
“All sins cast long shadows.”
“A silent mouth is melodious.”
“Every invalid is a physician.”
“Good luck beats early rising.”
“Strife is better than loneliness.”
“Everyone is wise until he speaks.”
“God often pays debts without money.”
“God likes help when helping people.”
“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
“Better be quarrelling than lonesome.”
“If you want an audience start a fight.”
“Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.”
“Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.”
“What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.”
“It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.”
“There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.”
“Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.”
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.”
“A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.”
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs”
“When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.”
“It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
“Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.”
“Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.”