School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 226
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“The people of old had sayings known as proverbs.”
(continued from previous page)"It is too late to share when all is spent"
"It is too late to lock the stable when the horse is gone."
"The world would not make a race horse of an ass."
"Blood is thicker than water."
"He that plants thorns shall grow roses."
"A man cannot whistle and chew oatmeal.
"The longest way around is the shortest way home.
"It is never too late to mend.
"The water is never missed until the well runs dry.
"Honesty is the best policy".
"The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh."
"Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you."
"Soon home is well home.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Filoména Ní Dhulchonta
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Lehane
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Carrick, Co. Tipperary