943 Irish Proverbs / Page 19
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If you don't want flour on your shoes, don't go into the mill.362.
If you don't want flour, do not get into the mill.363.
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.364.
If you go to court leave your soul at home.365.
If you have a roving eye, it's no use having the other one fixed on Heaven.366.
If you have one pair of good soles it is better than two pairs of good uppers.367.
If you have to swallow a frog, try not to think about it. If you have to swallow two frogs, don't swallow the smaller one first.368.
If you lend your coat, don't cut off the buttons.369.
If you lie down with dogs you'll rise with fleas.370.
If you live in my heart, you live rent free.371.
If you meet a red-haired woman, you'll meet a crowd.372.
If you put a silk dress on a goat, he is a goat still.373.
If you put a silk suit on a goat it is still a goat.374.
If you want an audience start a fight.375.
If you want to be criticized, marry.376.
In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns.377.
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.378.
Irishwomen have a dispensation from the pope to wear the thick ends of their legs downwards.379.
It destroys the craft not to learn it.380.
It is a bad hen can't scrape for herself.