Proverbs Page 11
- The doorstep of a great house is slippery
- There is misfortune only where there is wealth
- Sweet is the voice of the man who has wealth
- A hut is a palace to a poor man
- A heavy purse makes a light heart
- There's little value in the single cow
- A man of one cow-a man of no cow
- It's easy to knead when meal is at hand
- Wind from the east is good for neither man nor beast
- A Kerry shower is of twenty-four hours
- Better April showers than the breadth of the ocean in gold
- Better for a man to have even a dog welcome him than a dog bark at him
- Going in is not the same as going out
- A welcome is a debtor's face
- What's all the world to a man when his wife is a widow
- A wise head keeps a shut mouth
- Everyone is wise till he speaks
- Food is no more important than wisdom The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God
- There's no wise man without a fault
- He may die of wind but he'll never die of wisdom
- You can't put a wide head on young shoulders
- Wisdom is what makes a poor man a king, A weak person powerful, a good generation of a bad one, a foolish man reasonable.
- Though wisdom is good in the beginning it is better at the end
- A little of anything isn't worth a pin; but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot
- No making of a wise man
- A dishonest woman can't be kept in and an honest woman won't
- There is no thing wickeder than a woman of evil temper.
- A bad woman (wife) drinks a lot of her own bad butter-milk
- A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults
- A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in
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