Famous quotes containing the words irish proverb., irish proverb, irish and/or proverb:
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
—Irish Proverb.
“Young people don’t know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.”
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“Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)