The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.

First things first.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

A dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Don’t change horses in mid stream.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

History repeats itself.

It is the pace that kills.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.

Who says A must say B.

Where ignorance is bliss, Itis folly to be wise.

One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

From clogs to clogs is only three generations.

Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.

Do not meet troubles half-way.

Talk is cheap.

East, west, home’s best.

Little fish are sweet.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

A willful man must have his way.

A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Hard cases make bad law.

The first duty of a soldier is obedience.

Everybody love a lord.

There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.

England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.

Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past.

Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.

It is not work that kills, but worry.

Out of the mouths of babes.

Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go, Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child works hard for...

You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.

Brave men lived before Agamemnon.

Power corrupts.

God makes the back to the burden.

Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men.

Love makes the world go round.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

There is honour among thieves.

Fight fire with fire.

Man cannot live by bread alone.