A shitty Irish proverb from the 4th century reportedly doesn’t mention the wind at your back or the ground beneath your feet.
“It’s pretty disappointing,” said Irish linguist Nancy Lublin. “This one says nothing about ten thousand yesterdays and ten thousand tomorrows, and doesn’t bother to mention Lady Luck, or Father Time, or Dame Fortune, or Saint Patrick.”
The proverb in question also showed a real lack of references to greener pastures, sunnier morrows, clefted hillocks, slender dales, treacherous mires, Da’s shillelagh, and dirt.