School: Cluain Mhurchais (Hollyford) (roll number 13847)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   A straight tree may have crooked roots.
   Dead with tea, and dead without it.
   Make hay while the sun shines.
   Countries are not more numerous than customs.
   If things could be done twice every thing would be right.
   Despise school and remain a fool.
   Charity begins at home.
   The day always finds fault with the work of the night.
   Life is a queer man.
   Don’t show your teeth until you can bite.
   An inch is a great deal of a nose.
   It is a little that tastes.
   A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
   Never trouble another to do for you what you can do for yourself.

   I got those proverbs from Patrick Reardon, Reagoulane, Hollyford, Tipperary.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. seanfhocail (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen O' Dwyer

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An Ré Fhada, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Patrick Reardon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ré an Ghalláin, Co. Thiobraid Árann