111 Sayings of Gaelic Origin

1. "It is not with the first stroke that the tree falls." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "It is easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "A wild goose never laid a tame egg." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Every dog sets upon the stranger dog." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "A patch is better than a hole." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "The chief's house has a slippery doorstep." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "The little fire that warms is better than the big fire that burns." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Many a thing drops from the man who often flits." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "Whoever burns his backside must himself sit upon it." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Tis hard to hold a conger by the tail." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "He who will not sow in March will not reap in autumn." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "A cat in mittens won't catch mice." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "Grass does not grow on the high road." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "The man who always goes out with his net will catch birds sometimes." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "When thieves dispute, honest men will get their own." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "The smart fellow's share is on every dish." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "The fated thing will happen." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "A lazy youth will make an active old man." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "Sharp would the dog be that could snatch his tail from him." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Beauty won't boil the pot." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "Self-assurance is two-thirds of success." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "The windy day is not the day for thatch-wattles." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "Marriage takes the heat out of love." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Praise the good day at the close of it." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "The man who puts not a knot on his thread loses the first stitch." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Nothing is easy to the unwilling." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "A man may do without a brother, but not without a neighbour." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "Where the stream is shallowest, it is noisiest." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "Swift is the slut's husband over the hill, on a bleak day in Spring." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Evil thoughts often come from idleness." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Who is born to be hanged will never be drowned." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Better a good retreat than a bad stand." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "A feast is no use without good talk." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "It is at the year's end that the fisher can tell his luck." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "The learning in youth is the pretty learning." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "The willing horse should not be spurred." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "What the little ones see, the little ones do." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Go carefully with a full cup." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "The man with a big nose thinks everyone talks of it." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "The moon is none the worse for the dogs barking at her." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Two never kindled a fire but it lit between them." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "The mouse is mistress in her own house." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "The wine is sweet, the paying bitter." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "A wave will rise on quiet water." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "A man's fault will be as big as a mountain before he sees it." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "A son is a son until he comes of age; a daughter is a daughter all her life." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "The best apple is on the highest bough." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Some of the sweetest berries grow among the sharpest thorns." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "Check your purse before you please yourself." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "The active mother makes the lazy daughter." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "The grass that grows in March disappears in April." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "Who comes uninvited will sit down unbidden." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "A friend's eye is a good looking-glass." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "The strong foot will not find more than the big belly will devour." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "A covetous eye never got a good bargain." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "A little hole will sink a big ship." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "Nothing can get into a closed fist." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "Though you should take a wife from Hell, yet she will bring you home." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "The cat wonders at its own tail." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "The scraping hen will find something, but the creeping hen will find nothing." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "No door ever closed, but another opened." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "The lion is known by the scratch of his claws." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "The hand that gives is the hand that gets." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "Poor is the bagpipe when widowed." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "What comes with the wind will go with the water." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "No man ever broke his bow but another man found a use for the string." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "The essence of a game is at its end." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "Wet fuel may kindle, but a stone never will." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "No hero is proof against injury." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "More than we use is more than we want." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "A dimple on the chin, the devil within." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "A thank you doesn't pay the fiddler." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "A dog yells not when hit with a bone." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "A fire of broken peat, and a boy's love, do not last." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Men will meet, but the hills will not." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "The drunk man thinks himself the only one sober." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "The night is long for the husband of a bad wife." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "He that will not look forward must look behind." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "There is no smoke in a lark's house." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "Hold back your dog till the deer falls." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "Hot water will quench fire." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "A priest should be learned, but learning won't make a priest." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "A clean bird never came out of a kite's nest." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "Lofty is the deer's head on the top of the mountain." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "Two should stay together when crossing a ford." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "Honey may be sweet, but no-one licks it off a briar." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "Common sense hides shame." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "Dig your bait while the tide is out." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "The tartan is all of the one stuff." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "No wonder the cast smells of the herrings that it holds." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "A king's son is no nobler than his company." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "Who God does not teach, man cannot." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "The value of the well is not known until it goes dry." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "Peats don't fall from empty creels." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "Go courting afar, but marry next door." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "It's no health if the glass is not emptied." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "It's no secret if three know it." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "The man that divides the pudding will have the thick end to himself." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "A gossip's mouth is the devil's postbag." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "Assurance is two-thirds of success." (Gaelic Sayings) Click to tweet