943 Irish Proverbs / Page 9
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As honest as a cat when the meat is out of reach.162.
As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France.163.
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.164.
As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.165.
As you live yourself, you judge your neighbor.166.
As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.167.
As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.168.
Autumn days come quickly like the running of a hound on the moor.169.
Be kind to those that meet you as you rise, you may pass them again as you fall.170.
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.171.
Be there with the day and be gone with the day.172.
Beauty is only skin deep, ugliness goes to the bone.173.
Beauty never boiled the pot and ugliness never thickened it.174.
Beef to the heels like a Mullingar heifer.175.
Bend with the tree that will bend with you.176.
Better an idle house than a bad tenant.177.
Better April showers than the breadth of the ocean in gold.178.
Better be quarreling than lonesome.179.
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.180.
Better be safe than sorry.