Irish Toast

When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!

Youth and Old Age

• Praise the ripe field not the green corn
• Young people don’t know what old age is, and old people forget what youth was
• The schoolhouse bell sounds bitter in youth and sweet in old age
• The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune

Character and Honour

• Better good manners than good looks
• Promise in honour’s debt
• Better to be a man of character than a man of means
• If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next

Opportunity

• You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind
• Slow is every foot on an unknown path
• There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught

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
• Heaven’s leac na teine (stone before the fire) is reserved for the poor

Human nature

• You never miss the water till the well runs dry
• Everyone feels his own wound first
• Pity him who makes an opinion a certainty
• No two people ever light a fire without disagreeing
• A glowing ember is easily rekindled
• The person bringing good news knocks boldly on the door

Life’s good and bad

There’s nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse
Life is a strange lad
If God sends you down a stony path, may he give you strong shoes
However long the day, night must fall
God prefers prayers to tears