Nocho bí tuile cen tart.

Nocho bí tuile cen tart.

(not * exists * flood * without * drought)

There is never a flood that does not dry up.

A maxim from “Diambad messe bad rí réil”. A modern version, from Ó Longáin’s Collection in “A Miscellany” is “Níl tuile ná tránn.” Also, a poem by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh has the line “Ní bhí tuile nach téid as.”

Topics: Maxims & Wise Counsel