943 Irish Proverbs / Page 22
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It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged.422.
It's better than it's want.423.
It's better than the loan you couldn't get.424.
It's better to be sorry and stay, than to be sorry and go away.425.
It's better to return from the centre of the ford than drown in the flood.426.
It's difficult to choose between two blind goats.427.
It's difficult to trust a woman.428.
It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.429.
It's easy to knead when meal is at hand.430.
It's for her own good that the cat purrs.431.
It's gradually that castles are built.432.
It's hard to kill a bad thing.433.
It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.434.
It's hard to take britches off bare hips.435.
It's just a wisp in place of a brush.436.
It's natural for ducks to go barefoot.437.
It's no delay to stop to edge the tool.438.
It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.439.
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.440.
It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.