Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.


Irish Proverb

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ENGLISH PROVERB
If you thirst you may drink.
C.S. LEWIS
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CHINESE PROVERBS
The more they drink the more they thirst.
UNKNOWN
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IRENAEUS OF LYONS
She tipped back her glass and finished it.
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They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
BIBLE
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
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CAITLYN SIEHL
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EOIN COLFER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
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ISAK DINESEN
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get d...
ISAK DINESEN
He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"
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ASHLYN CHASE
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
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ARISTOTLE
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JOHN KEATS
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DEYTH BANGER
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BIBLE
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BIBLE
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JOHN KEATS
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NEHA KOTHARI
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JIM GEORGE
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GERMAN PROVERB
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FRANK SINATRA
A good thing never ends.
MICK JAGGER
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
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BILL BRUFORD
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
KAHLIL GIBRAN
To stand on the
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My spirit thirst for the living water.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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EDWARD BURNS
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KLAUS KINSKI
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KARL MARX
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
JAMES Q. WILSON
The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar...
BEN JONSON
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PERRY HUNTER
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SANTOSH KALWAR
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to ex...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
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BILL BRUFORD
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
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WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN
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RUSSIAN PROVERB
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
HANS SELYE
Nothing good ever ends.
WILLIAM SAROYAN
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
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JOHN B. KEANE
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
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MARC LEWIS
The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ...
A.S. PETERSON
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; bu...
C. D. BROAD
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
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GARY POULSON
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN
Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
IRISH PROVERB
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead.
IRISH PROVERB
A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
IRISH PROVERB
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
IRISH PROVERB
Hope is the physician of each misery.
IRISH PROVERB
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
IRISH PROVERB
Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
IRISH PROVERB
Great hate follows great love.
IRISH PROVERB
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
IRISH PROVERB
A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
IRISH PROVERB
Praise the young and they will flourish.
IRISH PROVERB
Praise youth and it will prosper.
IRISH PROVERB
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
IRISH PROVERB
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
IRISH PROVERB
The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
IRISH PROVERB
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
IRISH PROVERB
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.
IRISH PROVERB
If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.
IRISH PROVERB
Good luck beats early rising.
IRISH PROVERB
Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.
IRISH PROVERB
Even the longest day has its end.
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Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.
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Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
IRISH PROVERB
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.
IRISH PROVERB
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead.
IRISH PROVERB
A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
IRISH PROVERB
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
IRISH PROVERB
Hope is the physician of each misery.
IRISH PROVERB
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
IRISH PROVERB
Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
IRISH PROVERB
Great hate follows great love.
IRISH PROVERB
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
IRISH PROVERB
A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
IRISH PROVERB
Praise the young and they will flourish.
IRISH PROVERB
Praise youth and it will prosper.
IRISH PROVERB
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
IRISH PROVERB
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
IRISH PROVERB
The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
IRISH PROVERB
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
IRISH PROVERB
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.
IRISH PROVERB
If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.
IRISH PROVERB
Good luck beats early rising.
IRISH PROVERB
Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.
IRISH PROVERB
Even the longest day has its end.
IRISH PROVERB
Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.
IRISH PROVERB
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
IRISH PROVERB
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
IRISH PROVERB
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
IRISH PROVERB
A light heart lives long.
IRISH PROVERB
A lie travels farther than the truth.
IRISH PROVERB
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
IRISH PROVERB
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
IRISH PROVERB
A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.
IRISH PROVERB
Better own a trifle than want a great deal.
IRISH PROVERB
It s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
IRISH PROVERB
One eye in the corner is sharper than two about the house.
IRISH PROVERB
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
IRISH PROVERB
Patience cures many an old complaint.
IRISH PROVERB
Its for her own good that the cat purrs.
IRISH PROVERB
Don't tell your complaint to one who has no pity.
IRISH PROVERB
One beetle recognizes another.
IRISH PROVERB
You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel.
IRISH PROVERB
He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you
IRISH PROVERB
By degrees the castles are built.
IRISH PROVERB
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
IRISH PROVERB
A hen is heavy when carried far.
IRISH PROVERB
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
IRISH PROVERB
When the sky falls we'll catch larks.
IRISH PROVERB
What would a young cat do but eat mice?
IRISH PROVERB
Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.
IRISH PROVERB
Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.
IRISH PROVERB
A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
IRISH PROVERB
Its no use boiling your cabbage twice.
IRISH PROVERB
If you have one pair of good soles its better than two pairs of good uppers.
IRISH PROVERB
He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.
IRISH PROVERB
There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it.
IRISH PROVERB
A drink precedes a story.
IRISH PROVERB
Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except whe...
IRISH PROVERB
The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
IRISH PROVERB
The fox never found a better messenger than himself.
IRISH PROVERB
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
IRISH PROVERB
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
IRISH PROVERB
If you want an audience start a fight.
IRISH PROVERB
For what cannot be cured patience is best.
IRISH PROVERB
It is a long road that has no turning.
IRISH PROVERB
Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfor...
IRISH PROVERB
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
IRISH PROVERB
A wild goose never reared a tame gosling.
IRISH PROVERB
The world's quiet and the pig is in the sty.
IRISH PROVERB
It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
IRISH PROVERB
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
IRISH PROVERB
You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,
IRISH PROVERB
A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterwards.
IRISH PROVERB
A silent mouth is melodious.
IRISH PROVERB
Possession satisfies.
IRISH PROVERB
Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him.
IRISH PROVERB
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
IRISH PROVERB
Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.
IRISH PROVERB
Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
IRISH PROVERB
Need teaches a plan.
IRISH PROVERB
God likes help when helping people.
IRISH PROVERB
The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.
IRISH PROVERB
A poor person is often worthy.
IRISH PROVERB
It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.
IRISH PROVERB
Marriages are all happy its having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.
IRISH PROVERB
If you put a silk dress on a goat he is a goat still.
IRISH PROVERB
To every cow its calf; to every book its copy.
IRISH PROVERB
A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.
IRISH PROVERB
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
IRISH PROVERB
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
IRISH PROVERB
There was never a scabby sheep in a flock that didn't like to have a comrade.
IRISH PROVERB
It is the good horse that draws its own cart.
IRISH PROVERB
To the raven her own chick is white.
IRISH PROVERB
The smallest thing outlives the human being.
IRISH PROVERB
Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
IRISH PROVERB
A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.
IRISH PROVERB
It's difficult to choose between two blind goats.
IRISH PROVERB
Every bird as it is reared and the lark for the bog.
IRISH PROVERB
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor.It makes you shoot at your lan...
IRISH PROVERB
In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns.
IRISH PROVERB
An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
IRISH PROVERB
An eye is blind in another man's corner.
IRISH PROVERB
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
IRISH PROVERB
and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.
IRISH PROVERB
Every invalid is a physician.
IRISH PROVERB
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
IRISH PROVERB
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you wont see the dust on the floor.
IRISH PROVERB
There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.
IRISH PROVERB
People live in each other's shelter.
IRISH PROVERB
Good questions outrank easy answers.
IRISH SAYINGS
Who gossips with you will gossip of you
IRISH SAYINGS
Nodding the head does not row the boat
IRISH SAYINGS
A blind man can see his mouth
IRISH SAYINGS
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
IRISH BLESSINGS
May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace ...
IRISH BLESSINGS
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life
IRISH SAYINGS
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
IRISH SAYINGS
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon you...
IRISH BLESSINGS
There is pain in prohibition
IRISH SAYINGS
May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten
IRISH BLESSINGS
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
IRISH BLESSING
When mistrust comes in, love goes out.
IRISH SAYINGS
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
IRISH SAYINGS
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
IRISH SAYINGS
Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
IRISH SAYINGS
May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you ...
IRISH BLESSINGS
The longest road out is the shortest road home
IRISH SAYINGS
Poor is the church without music
IRISH SAYINGS
It's no delay to stop to edge the tool
IRISH SAYINGS
Fear is a fine spur
IRISH SAYINGS
Poverty parts good company
IRISH SAYINGS
He who can follow his own will is a king
IRISH SAYINGS
When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest
IRISH SAYINGS
Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland
IRISH SAYINGS
Better one good thing that is than two good things that were
IRISH SAYINGS
Questioning is the door of knowledge
IRISH SAYINGS
A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle
IRISH SAYINGS
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools
IRISH SAYINGS
Anything will fit a naked man
IRISH SAYINGS
It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
IRISH SAYINGS
Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within
IRISH SAYINGS
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
IRISH SAYINGS
But the greatest love - the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother - Is the tender...
IRISH SAYINGS
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures
IRISH SAYINGS
It's for her own good that the cat purrs
IRISH SAYINGS
There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught
IRISH SAYINGS
Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat
IRISH SAYINGS
What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone
IRISH SAYINGS
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune
IRISH SAYINGS
The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, They're a people of great worth, They keep company ...
IRISH SAYINGS
If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.
IRISH SAYINGS
"May love & laughter light your days and warm your heart & home. May good & faithful friends be your...
IRISH BLESSING
Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part.
IRISH BLESSINGS
May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, may your heart be as light as a song, may each day br...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving prote...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May the Holes in you Net be no larger than the Fish in it
IRISH BLESSING
May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And ma...
IRISH BLESSINGS
For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness fo...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshin...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May the Holes in your Net be no Larger than the Fish in it,
IRISH BLESSING
May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows that you are dead.
IRISH BLESSING
May you be fourty years in heaven before the devil knows your dead.
IRISH BLESSINGS
May you live a long life full of gladness and health.
IRISH BLESSINGS
May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send...
IRISH BLESSINGS
These things I warmly wish for you Someone to love, some work to do, A bit o' sun, a bit o' cheer, A...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live
IRISH BLESSINGS
When the first light of sun, Bless you. When the long day is done, Bless you. In your smiles and you...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us,...
IRISH BLESSINGS
I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees.
IRISH MCCALLA
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
IRISH BLESSINGS
The devil never grants long leases
IRISH SAYINGS
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
IRISH SAYINGS
A lock is better than suspicion.
IRISH SAYINGS
May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunli...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past
IRISH BLESSINGS
May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead
IRISH BLESSINGS
There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience
IRISH SAYINGS
Some prefer carrot while others like cabbage
IRISH SAYINGS
May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so not...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings righ...
IRISH BLESSINGS
May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer...
IRISH BLESSINGS
Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs ...
IRISH SAYINGS
A sly rogue is often in good dress
IRISH SAYINGS
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step...
IRISH BLESSINGS
Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
IRISH SAYINGS
All sins cast long shadows
IRISH SAYINGS
May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a...
IRISH BLESSINGS
Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail
IRISH SAYINGS
Fear is a fine spur, so is rage
IRISH SAYINGS
Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar
IRISH SAYINGS
Winter comes fast on the lazy
IRISH SAYINGS
The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard
IRISH SAYINGS
A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood
IRISH SAYINGS
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
IRISH SAYINGS
A silent mouth is sweet to hear
IRISH SAYINGS
It's the first drop that destroys you - there's no harm at all in the last
IRISH SAYINGS
I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in ...
IRISH SAYINGS
Falling is easier than rising
IRISH SAYINGS
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners
IRISH SAYINGS
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
IRISH SAYINGS
May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way...
IRISH BLESSINGS
Treachery returns
IRISH SAYINGS