School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 076
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- A proverb is an old, true,wise saying. There are many proverbs such as, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." "one bird in the hand is better than two in the bush." "A good run is better than a bad stand." "Have it yourself or do without it." They had proverbs for certain doings of people. Grey hairs must be respected. "A fish in a plate if worth four in a river." People believed very much in these proverbs. This is another proverb, "Early to bed early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." "For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, for the want of a shoe the horse was lost, for the want of a driver the horse was lost." "Save hay while the sun shines." "Look before you leap." "The more the merrier." "Better is a little fish than an empty dish."
- Collector
- Thomas O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Hoare
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Teermaclane, Co. Clare
