Great Throughts Treasury

"God made time, but man made haste."

"God's help is nearer than the door."

"Good as drink is, it ends in thirst."

"God is good, but never dance in a small boat."

"Good luck beats early rising."

"Have a mouth of ivy and a heart of holly."

"Great hate follows great love."

"Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides."

"He who can follow his own will is a king."

"He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you."

"He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell."

"He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday."

"Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort."

"If God shuts one door, He opens another."

"Hoping to recoup ruins the gambler."

"If one sheep puts its head through the gap the rest will follow."

"I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent."

"If you dig a grave for others you may fall into it yourself."

"If you come up in this world be sure not to go down in the next."

"If you lie down with dogs you'll rise with fleas."

"If you want to be criticized, marry."

"If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself."

"If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon."

"If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn."

"If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough."

"It destroys the craft not to learn it."

"It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself."

"Instinct is stronger than upbringing."

"It is a long road that has no turning."

"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

"It is better to exist unknown to the law."

"It is easy to halve the potato where there is love."

"It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead."

"It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears."

"It is not the big mansion that makes the happy home."

"It is not a secret if it is known by three people."

"It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief."

"It is often that a person's mouth broke his nose."

"It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal."

"It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for."

"It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day."

"It is the good horse that draws its own cart."

"It?s no use going to the goat's house to look for wool."

"It's easy to halve the potato where there's love."

"It's no use boiling your cabbage twice."

"It's for her own good that the cat purrs."

"It's no delay to stop to edge the tool."

"It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking."

"It's the deaf people that create the lies."

"It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while."