943 Irish Proverbs / Page 44
861.
What's all the world to a man when his wife is a widow.862.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.863.
What's got badly, goes badly.864.
When a heifer is far from home she grows longer horns.865.
When a man gets his feet in lime he cannot easily get rid of it.866.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.867.
When all fruits fail welcome haws.868.
When all things spoke the potato said, 'set me warm, dig me warm, eat me warm, that's all i want.'869.
When death comes, it will not go away empty.870.
When everybody's house is on fire go home and look at your own chimney.871.
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.872.
When the apple is ripe, it will fall.873.
When the cat is out the mouse can dance.874.
When the drink is in, the sense is out.875.
When the drop is inside, the sense is outside.876.
When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest.877.
When the goat goes to church, he does not stop till he gets to the altar.878.
When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray.879.
When the hand is clean, It needs no screen.880.
When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.