Irish proverbs on age

grahamg

Old codger
Irish Proverbs: Youth & Old Age
Praise the ripe field not the green corn.

Young people don’t know what old age is, and old people forget what youth was.

The schoolhouse bell sounds bitter in youth and sweet in old age.

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.

As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.

The old dog for the hard road and leave the pup on the path.

http://islandireland.com/Pages/folk/sets/proverb.html
 

There's a virus on that website! Don't click on it!!!
Can you tell me how you became aware of the virus, (did you "allow cookies? I didn't luckily btw)?

I had an issue when I just tried to click on it too, (though it seemed okay earlier?). .
 

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My virus protection (Avast) blocked the page from opening.
I thought my virus protection was pretty up to date, and I'm still afraid of clicking on the "do you agree to cookies" button on almost any website, certainly I've avoided the best known one in the world for almost a year because of this.
 
There's a virus on that website! Don't click on it!!!
I keep clicking on it and my laptop seems to have survived the experience far, (the other website I mentioned earlier still wrries me though!):

More from the same:
"Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot."

"Questioning is the door of knowledge."

"The river is no wider from this side than the other."

"Seldom is the last of anything better than the first."

 
You'll like this one, (very prescient):

God is good, but don't dance in a currach — simply means don't tempt fate by pushing your luck or being an idiot!
(a currach is a small boat 🚤⛵)
 
I thought my virus protection was pretty up to date, and I'm still afraid of clicking on the "do you agree to cookies" button on almost any website, certainly I've avoided the best known one in the world for almost a year because of this.

Yeah, I don't click on the "cookies" button unless I know the site is legit. You can't be too careful.
 
Yeah, I don't click on the "cookies" button unless I know the site is legit. You can't be too careful.
The site I refer to as being most afraid of is ligit of course, as its one of the biggest, if not the biggest in the world, but my old computer seemed to get filled up with viruses if I used it, (I admit my old machine wasn't so well protected though).
 
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Some more wisdom from the seemingly endless list for those of us over a certain age:
http://www.italyrevisited.org/photo/Folk_Sayings_on_Aging/world/1

o Life is half spent before we know what it is.

o Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed.

o Life goes on, no matter what we try to do to it.

o Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
 


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