First things first.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

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

It is the pace that kills.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

History repeats itself.

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.

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.

Talk is cheap.

East, west, home’s best.

From clogs to clogs is only three generations.

Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.

Do not meet troubles half-way.

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

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.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

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.

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

England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.

Hard cases make bad law.

The first duty of a soldier is obedience.

Everybody love a lord.

Out of the mouths of babes.

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.

Power corrupts.

God makes the back to the burden.

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.

There is honour among thieves.

Fight fire with fire.

Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men.

Love makes the world go round.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind.

Man cannot live by bread alone.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.