School: An Pasáiste Thoir (B.), Port Láirge

Location:
Passage East, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Heachthigheirn
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  1. Early to bed and early to rise,
    Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
    Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets,
    Put the kitchen fire out.
    He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
    Always talking out of the meal-tub and never putting in.
    Soon comes to the bottom.
    Be ware and bear in mind.
    A faithful friend it's hard to find.
    But if you find one, kind and true.
    Never change the old one for the new.
    Have it yourself or be without it.
    Try your friends before you want them.
    After a storm there comes a calm.
    And after a gathering there comes a scattering.
    You'll never miss the water till the well runs dry.
    The best of goods is often found in small parcels - but so also is poison.
    It's never too late to learn.
    Whats blotted cannot be blotted.
    However long the pitcher is giving to the well it gets broken at last.
    The long you live the more you learn.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Daley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Passage East, Co. Waterford