Sayings: Our favorites

The language of Ireland is one of poetry, prose, humour and wisdom and we were brought up with sayings trotted out wisely by the kitchen stove. The sayings littered into daly conversation embody the very essence of what it is to be Irish so here’s just a few of the ones we love.

May your house always be too small to hold all your friends

Beautiful young people are acts of nature - beautiful old people are works of art

A friend’s eye is a good mirror

May you be in heaven well before the devil knows you’re dead!

You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind

Many a man’s mouth broke his nose

Say little and say it well.

A son is with you for today but a daughter is with you forever

Life is like a cup of tea….it’s all in how you make it

Two people shorten the road

God made time but man made haste

A face without freckles is like a sky without stars