School: De Freyne (roll number 16457)
- Location:
- Portaghard, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gionnáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 159
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: De Freyne
- XML Page 159
- XML “Local 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
- (continued from previous page)The longest way round is the shortest way home.
A man in former times making a near cut home lost his way and met his death by falling into a drain. In a year after the wife and daughter of the deceased man passed where the accidental death occurred. The mother remarked to the daughter. "It was this day twelve months your father was found dead here." The daughter replied "had he taken round about he would have reached home before to-day."
There are none so blind as they that will not see.
Liars ought to have good memories.
The more the merrier.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
What is worth doing is worth doing well.
One man's mate is another man's poison.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
Set a beggar on horseback and he will outride the devil.
On their merits modest men are dumb.(continues on next page)
