Famous quotes containing the words irish proverb, irish and/or proverb:
“Young people don’t know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.”
—Irish Proverb</i>.
“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“The proverb warns that “You should not bite the hand that feeds you.” But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)