The Irish have a funny Irish quote for everything, they have a saying, blessing and wise words when dealing with life’s hardships.
Below some great sayings that I grew up with. Enjoy!
You’d be hard up for soup if you boiled the dishcloth.
Feck the begrudgers.
They’ll be here till the skin of a gooseberry makes a cap for them.
You can’t take feathers off a frog, but you can throw the frog in jail.
If you’re born to drown, you’ll never hang.
There’s no point in getting oul unless you get oul fashioned
Nevery a borrower or a lender be.
If you get the name of early rising, you can lay till lunch.
Bit by bit the bird builds her nest.
There’s no fool like an oul fool.
May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.
You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough.
Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.
The Irish ignore anything they can’t drink or punch.
There are only two kinds of people in the world, the Irish and those who wish they were.
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.
You’ll never miss the water till the well runs dry.
You can take the girl out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the girl.
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