School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 115
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: Gallbhaile
- XML Page 115
- 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 know many proverbs but here are the best ones :-
A shut mouth catches no flies.
It's a long lane that has no turn.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten
It's a bad wind that does not blow favourable for somebody.
The man on the ditch is the best hurler.
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Put a beggar on a horse and she will ride him to hell.
Constant dropping wears a stone.
At the mouth of the bag is the time to save.
Eat an apple going to bed and the doctor may go and beg his bread.
As long as the pitcher goes to the well 'tis broken in the end.
You can't do two things well at the one time.
A burned child dreads the fire.
Once bitten twice shy.We can see the truth in these proverbs from begining to end. The longer we live the more of these nice old Irish sayings we(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymorris, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Nicholas Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Ballymorris, Co. Wexford
