WELCOME |
Margaret's Pages - of Irish Proverbs and Irish Wit featuring photos of Irish scenery |
The Irish have a way with words, and the proverbs bring a cheery smile to the face and really are very much, commonsense, and worthy of reading. |
May love and laughter light your days and warm your heart and home |
May good and faithful friends be yours wherever you may roam |
There is no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down |
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool . Soft words butter no parsnips but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either. |
Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat |
Page made 5 July 2001 updated 12 Feb 2004 |
Kylemore Abbey, Co Galway, Ireland |
The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse. |
The longest road out is the shortest road home |
Leprachauns, castles, good luck and laughter Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums A thousand welcomes when anyone comes ... That's the Irish for you! |
Love is blind to blemishes and faults |
Glanmore Lake, Co Kerry |
Three esssential truths - sunrise, sunset, and death |
A wise head keeps a shut mouth |
Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door |
An old pipe gives the sweetest smoke |
May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and yours |
Slea Head, Co Kerry |
Lake at Inveragh Peninsula, Co Kerry |
It's a long road that hasn't a turning |
The hard gathering gets the wide scattering |
The eye should be blind in the house of another |
Irish scene |
Wine and women empty men's pockets |
The devil never took a good heart to hell |
You can't take blood from a stone |
An old broom knows the dirty corners best |
Lakes near Killarney, Co Kerry |
The Old school House Inn, Co Down - click here |