School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 127
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- Old Proverbs
A stitch in time saves nine.
Mind the pennies and the pounds will mind themselves.
Put a penny away for a rainy day.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
As long as the day is, the night will come, and as long as the night is the day will dawn.
Waste not, want not.
Its an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
Too late to spare when all is spent.
Spend and do not spare, and if you spend too much you will want in a soar complain.
You cant have your loaf and eat it.
Its a long lane that has no turning.
The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the puddle.
Tis hard to break an old dog off his trot.
Written by:- Margaret Keating, Ballydrehid N.S., Cahir, Co. Tipperary
Told by:- James Keating (35), Ballydrehid, Cahir, Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Margaret Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
