Níl saoi gan locht
There is no wise man without fault · Neel see gon lukht
Níl saoi gan locht means There is no wise man without fault, and is said Neel see gon lukht.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads Not is a wise one without fault. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Neel see gon lukht, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
A saoi is a sage or a learned person. Nobody is above a flaw, which in Ireland is said as a comfort and as a warning.
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