943 Irish Proverbs / Page 38
741.
The waiting man thinks the time long.742.
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.743.
The well fed does not understand the lean.744.
The well fed person doesn't understand the hungry one.745.
The well-fed does not understand the lean.746.
The well-filled belly has little understanding of the empty.747.
The windy day is not a day for scallops [thatching].748.
The wine is sweet, the paying bitter.749.
The wise bird flies lowest.750.
The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.751.
The work praises the man.752.
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.753.
The world's quiet and the pig is in the sty.754.
The young shed many skins.755.
The youngest thorns are the sharpest.756.
There are as many good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.757.
There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.758.
There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.759.
There are many ways of killing a pig other than by choking it with butter.760.
There are three creatures beyond ruling - a mule, a pig and a woman.