Comments on: Share with Me Your Favorite “Wise Words & Witty Expressions”

By: renee123

renee123 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:50:19 +0000

Enjoyed your comment. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year! Remember eat pork on New Year’s day because a pig roots forward, a chicken scratches back.

By: moiraheffron

moiraheffron — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:33:46 +0000

My dad, Maurice Heffron, who was “Irish as Paddy’s Pig,” used to say, “It’s worse where there isn’t any…” when kids would complain…and when asked what was for dinner, he’d suggest that it might be, “Potato and point.” His view of genealogy was that one should approach it carefully because you “might find out that your grandfather smuggled whiskey.”

By: Joann

Joann — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:17:49 +0000

Renee,
One thing my Mother (she being half Irish and half German and my Father being all Irish) would always say to me…”Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing!”‘
That saying can be interpreted however you like.
Joann

By: renee123

renee123 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:06:49 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. It made me smile because it has the same sentiment that I grew up with from my Irish mother.

By: emprn

emprn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:52:27 +0000

My Father who was Irish, had always said if we had a little injury as a child, Don’t worry, it will be better before you are married, he had got this from his mother. Eileen O’Connor Perruso

By: gkuhn

gkuhn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:23:00 +0000

Ms. Gatz

Reading your book brought to mind something my grandfather had told me on numerous occasions. He would tell me “You have two ears and one mouth, so you should listen twice as much as you speak.” I sometimes find myself sharing this knowledge with a student from time to time.

Good Luck

Gary

By: jv

jv — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:04:39 +0000

Hi Renee, the book cover is beautiful.

Just thought of something an old Irishwoman used to say: “Never a road without a turn”!

Looking forward to the book.
Janet

By: samsonmedia

samsonmedia — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:25:09 +0000

My grandmother always used to say to me, “it’s easy when you know how”. I find myself saying that alot now as an adult but at the time I didn’t really “get it”.