943 Irish Proverbs / Page 16
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Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides.302.
Good sense is as important as food.303.
Great hate follows great love.304.
Great mansions have slippery doors.305.
Great talk and little action.306.
Half a leap falls into the ditch.307.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.308.
Handfuls make a load.309.
Handle the pudding while it's hot.310.
Have it yourself, or else do without it.311.
He couldn't drag a herring off the coals.312.
He dotes on his midden and thinks it the moon.313.
He got it from nature as the pig got the rooting in the ground.314.
He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice.315.
He knows how many grains to a bushel of wheat.316.
He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.317.
He may die of wind but he'll never die of wisdom.318.
He thinks that he himself is the very stone that was hurled at the castle.319.
He was never good since the time a yard made a coat for him.320.
He who can follow his own will is a king.