4. What the Púca writes, himself reads.
5. What goes longer, grows colder (or is neglected).
6. Heredity breaks out in the cat's eyes.
7. Foresight (or punctuality) prevails over accident.
8. Foreign cows have big horns.
9. A person's will is his food.
10. A daughter-in-law and a mother-in-law, as a cat and mouse are towards each other.
11. Let it be as it is, and Tralee where it is.
12. Truth is sour.
13. Grumbling is lucky.
14. “I saw you before,” as the cat said to the hot milk.
15. The law of lending is to break what is borrowed.
16. If there was rain to November, it would be a shower.
17. Money is the end of the (Gospel) preaching.
18. Even a sleek (smooth) cat would eat a taper (smooth water runs deep).
19. Opportunity leads to mischief, or, a thief is made by opportunity.
20. While the grass grows, the horse starves.
21. Each foster-son as reared and the swan on the water (cat after kind).
22. Each poet and prophet discoursing his own art.
23. Drink before news (take your drink before answering).
24. Fighting is preferable to solitude.
25. The parish priest is subject to a slip of the tongue.
26. A slow hound is often lucky.
27. It is hard to start the hare of a hareless bush.
28. Idle strollers seldom have fish.
29. Frost is preferable to constant rain.
30. The hob is a good anchor.
31. The bird in the hand is better than the one on the branch.
32. Sweetly we drink, sourly we pay.
33. Namesakes have a fellow-feeling.
34. The hound on the run is better off than that in the corner.
35. The raven thinks his nestling fair.
36. God’s help is nearer than the door.
37. Poverty can’t be up to its word, or, poverty is dispiriting.
| 1st | form, | lit., | captivity (affliction) makes kindness bare. |
| 2nd | „ | „ | bareness makes an intention bare, or straightened circumstances bares an intention. |
38. The gander’s bill or beak is not longer than the goose’s (what is sauce, &c.)
39. Peace is the best of all virtues, or, peace is the best choice of all.
40. When the goat gets into church, he’ll not stop till he goes to the altar (ambition tempts the wise).
4. Luck is only where discipline or order is.
42. A liar is not believed.
43. From small causes big evils follow.
44. Food is not better than sense (live not to eat, but eat to live).
45. There is no convex without a concave.
46. A barking dog never bites.
47. The greater the need, the nearer the help.
48. There is no use in talking when the harm is done.
49. A person’s garment is no load to him.
50. There is no sage without a fault.
51. Eloquence does not support the friars.
52. Fits of violence are not lasting.
53. A tooth is not broken by a good word.
54. Shun the bad man and you need not fear the good man.
55. A man of learning understands a half-word (a word to the wise is enough).
56. Necessity is the mother of invention (lit., N. teaches I.)
57. A bashful person is not usually a gainer.
58. He who is lucky himself, has his cabbage lucky; or, a thrifty person has thriving goods.
59. He who gets the name of an early riser, can sleep out till breakfast time.
60. Falsehood goes further than truth.
61. Misfortune knows its own person.
62. He whom the shoe is pinching, has the most right to rip it.
64. Every person having his own soul on his shoulder, let him take it or leave it.
64. A boat without rudder, or a hound without a tail (unmanageable).
65. The neighbour’s porridge tastes sweet.
