School: Caisleán an Fhrinnsigh (roll number 11707/10648)
- Location:
- Castle Ffrench, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Mac Shiúrtáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0044, Page 0047
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caisleán an Fhrinnsigh
- XML Page 0047
- XML “Proverbs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- I heard many old proverbs at home, and I was surprised at the wisdom of them.
Iron was discovered long ago, and it has also never been beaten. The wisdom of the old proverbs will never be beaten.
Early to bed and early to rise is an old proverb. It tells all people to go to bed early and to get up early.
Idleness is the mother of mischief is another old proverb, and it is a very true one also.
When a person is idle, his mind is filled with bad thoughts, and he is tempted to do evil.
A very wise old saying tells us to keep the tongue and temper under control.
Cleanliness is next to godliness is another old saying. All people should keep themselves clean, as there is an abundance of water in this country.
Another old proverb is "a good book is a good companion." It is better to read(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Currafarry, Co. Galway
