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Dad:    If you don’t hit the ball while it hops, it may never hop again.

•     Meaning: 
  given a chance – make good use of it.

Mum:    You might as well eat the devil as drink his blood.

•     She was referring on Friday no meat or frying an egg with fat.

Dad:    You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

•     Meaning: 
  If somebody does not want to do something, 
  you cannot make him do so

Mum:    The way to hell is paved with good intentions. 

•      Meaning: 
  If you promise to do something do it immediately, 
  don’t put off till tomorrow

Dad:    Think before you talk, switch on brain before opening mouth.

•     No explanation necessary. 
  A lot of people put their foot in it.

Mum:    Watch the pennies, the Pounds take care of themselves.

•     Meaning: 
  don’t spend money buying something you don’t need.

Dad:    Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy and wise.

•     His working-day from sunrise to dusk. 

Mum:    Necessity is the Mother of invention. 

•     Her talent to modify cloth was exceptional.  

Dad:    Why make things easy, when you can nearly make the impossible.

•     Meaning: 
  before you start a job, work out the details

Mum:    It is more difficult for a rich man to go to heaven, then a camel to go through the eye of a needle. 

•     Meet ye all in hell.

Dad:    man without learning wearing good cloth 
is like a gold ring on barrow pig’s nose. 

•     (I don’t know whom he was referring to; 
  I meet the scholars coming home.)

 Mum:    A little kindness goes a long way, 

•     Meaning: 
  knock and it shall be opened to you. 
  If you don’t ask, you shall not receive.

Padraic:    
If you disagree with any of the above: please complain,
I will be happy to include anything
you would like to add.

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