Raftery the Poet - Profile

When a man repeats a promise again and again he means to fail you
The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns
He that knows little soon repeats it
He that liveth in hope danceth without a fiddle
It is impossible to wake a man who is pretending to be asleep
Manners often make fortunes
The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle
He that trusts to borrowed ploughs will have his land lie fallow
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known
Hedgehogs lodge among thorns because they themselves are prickly
The golden age was never the present age
Nothing ever came out of a sack but what was in it
You can send a donkey round the world but he will not come back as a horse
Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men cannot remedy
Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills
Dogs that bark at a distance never bite
He who knows nothing is confident in everything
He who serves the public hath but a scurvy master
If wise men never erred it would go hard with the fool
It is a bad cause, that none dares speak in
It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand
A fool will laugh when he is drowning
You may pay more for your education than the learning is worth
It is impossible to win an argument with a fool
Send a fool to market, and a fool he'll return
They love dancing well, that dance among thorns
No one gives advice with more enthusiasm than an ignorant person
What is an opinion but a few facts combined with emotion and prejudice?
The term 'wise man' can be applied to he who lives on what he has, rather than speculating on what he has not
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it

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