Tuesday, December 1, 2009

IRISH PROVERBS: Fortune and Wealth

Enough and no waste is as good as a feast.


Cut your coat according to your cloth.


He who has water and peat on his own farm has the world his own way.


A cat can look at a king.


It is not the same to go to the king's house as to come from it.


The life of an old hat is to cock it.


There never came a gatherer but a scatterer came after him.


Better be sparing at first than at last.


If you buy what you don't need you might have to sell what you do.


Hunger is a good sauce.


A heavy purse makes a light heart.


Heaven's leac na teine (stone before the fire) is reserved for the poor.