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Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.


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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
LORD BYRON I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR You should make sure the engine is all up to snuff.
BRET KOHLES Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO He was on again tonight. I don't know if he was quite up to snuff because I've been pitching him (a ...
VINCE KEISTER When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell,/ If we were Wax, or Tallow by the Smell./ At a g...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of ...
TOM BROWN To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of l...
TOM BROWN Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
JAMES HOWELL He worked hard to get all of his students up to snuff.
LAUREN LONGO Obviously I didn't make the game fast enough. I didn't coach up to snuff. So, you know, it's a littl...
JOHN CALIPARI Once we get it up to snuff, it should be one of the regular competitors in the market.
JIM WOOD I did kind of let 'em have it. I don't think we were playing up to snuff. You've got to give Illinoi...
JIM BOLLMAN Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices so...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.
IRISH PROVERB I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
FRED DURST I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all t...
SHAN SA It's the same reason we have spittoons and snuff boxes in the chamber. There's a veneration of the w...
DONALD RITCHIE He does not want a rapid break in bond prices to snuff out the jobs recovery before it has a chance ...
CHRIS LOW Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
ALVIN AILEY To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object tha...
JEAN HANFF KORELITZ The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on ma...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The rest of my appearance I try to keep up to snuff as much as possible, but I feel like I have my g...
JODY SELING We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely beca...
DOUGLAS HYDE Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he i...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Share prices got off a firmer start as investors took comfort from the rally on Wall Street but caut...
YUTAKA MIURA Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, ...
JULIAN ASSANGE Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When Pandoras box is opened and all is revealed inside, some would quiver, some would shake while ot...
GEORGE REX Experts agree that a bird flu pandemic could strike and race across the world like wildfire, but exp...
BRENDAN CONWAY Feast of Matthias the Apostle If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold go...
T. R. GLOVER Frank was very, very meticulous when it came to his airplanes. He made sure that the pilots were the...
PETER WAGNER We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of ...
GREGORIO SABLAN Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE Our expectations were higher than what happened here. We weren't up to snuff today but it has been a...
BOB DYER If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all y...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese s...
KEVIN BARRY I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday w...
NOEL GALLAGHER There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
EDWARD BURNS Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that t...
ALAN PARKER Echelon is a black box, and nobody outside the intelligence community knows what is inside it.
BARRY STEINHARDT One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to...
MICHAEL HUFFINGTON I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what s...
JAMES THURBER Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
ENDA KENNY The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The death of one threatens the future of many.
NOBODY Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB I'd just like to take a moment here to say that I'm totally opposed to violence in the school system...
MCLEAN STEVENSON I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissi...
BARBARA WOODHOUSE Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine th...
ALAN PARKER was coughing and wheezing and sneezing.
MIKE EASLEY My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than ...
ALICIA SILVERSTONE We don't celebrate it over there, really. It's a holiday that normally is recognized when the Irish ...
MAGGIE PARKER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS 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 If theres one thing I can't stand, it's my brother's finger nails!
JULIAN "JUNEBUG" BUSSELLS Each day i wake and think at last this nightmare is over. But it never is.
SUZANNE COLLINS Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake,...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns
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FUAD BAROODY That's fine if you keep playing this record over and over. It is going to be a very strong spring. T...
AL PARISH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH He goes into the box, and does very well at falling over. Remarkably well
STEVE BRUCE 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES If I get nervous, I just look over my shoulder at the people behind me. Nobody could be worried with...
BASTIEN RIPOLL Sleep!

May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalyps...
SANHITA BARUAH When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON I don't look at it like that. Nobody said it was over. The way the division is playing, it's not ove...
ZACH THOMAS The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody el...
MIA HAMM My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
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KARRIE HEARTLEIN If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
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GARY F EVANS... A proverb is the child of experience.
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DENISE BROWN Mother Superior jump the gun...
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MOLLY HARPER A lot of good Irish beer was spilled over that guitar. If it's in a pawn shop somewhere, I'd like to...
ROGER MCCARVILLE Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK At this point, nobody on our side is surprised by what he does. The guys in the other dugout are pro...
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BRUCE GRADKOWSKI This whole thing could be over with if they just hang the prints and fine, it is done.
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JOHN KEATS

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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 Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
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 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
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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
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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.
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IRISH BLESSINGS Treachery returns
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