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Voici une autre -

"Never forget, only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge

Successful translations of these are beyond my capabilities, but I think they are gas to read! At least some of them must have similar idioms in Irish. As Franc said earlier, it's not necessarily literal translations, but the basic message that is being sought.

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Dlí Uí Mhurchú according to potafocal.com

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Ná dearmad a dhéanamh riamh air, ach snámhann na héisc marbha le sruth. - Is that right or should I be using the copula to front it? Any suggestions welcomed.

Here are some more - they are on little slips of paper that come with individually wrapped chocolates you get given at Christmas, here they're known as papiottes, though that same word can be applied to all manner of other eatables tied or bound up into small bundles of some kind. Beartóga is what I think you'd call them, as in - beartóga bradáin.

Perhaps you might like to try putting these into Irish -

Un baiser légal ne vaut jamais un baiser volé. - Guy de Maupassant
- A legitimate kiss never equals a stolen kiss.

L'écriture est la peinture de la voix. - Voltaire
- Writing is the painting of the voice.

Une fois la partie terminée, le roi et le pion retournent dans la même boîte. - Proverbe italien
- Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. - an Italian proverb

Dans une avalanche, aucun flocon ne se sent jamais responsable. - Voltaire
In an avalanche, not one snowflake ever feels responsible for it.

Sabot qui brille n'est pas toujours celui qui chausse le mieux. - Proverbe français
A clog that shines isn't always the one that fits the best. - a French proverb

Pour entretenir l'amour, il faut savoir faire preuve de l'imagination au quotidien.
To keep love going along, you must show that you know how to use your imagination day in day out.
(and that one's definitely anonymous)

Here's another one -

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man, we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress. - Ed Begley Jr

Ní thuigim cad ina thaobh nuair a scriosaimid rud éigin cruthú le duine tugaimid creachadóireacht air, áfach nuair a scriosaimid rud éigin cruthú leis an dúlra, tugaimid forás air.

- corrections welcome