If the cuckoo calls from a tree without leaves, sell your cow and buy corn. Chomh glic le sionnach. As clever as a fox. Food is not better than sense. The juice of the cow is good, alive or dead.
Hunger is a good sauce.
Whoever will drink, 'tis Domhnall will pay. A drink comes before a story. Half a loaf is better than to be without bread. There is many a twist in life. It is not upper class or lower class, but up a while and down awhile.